Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 71

Not knowing that the syllables of a Dakota's cry are the names of loved ones gone, the ugly toad mother sought to please the boy's ear with the names of valuable articles.

Who acts: ugly toad mother, syllables, Dakota · What happens: not know, be, love, go, seek, please · To what, where: names, loved ones, ear, valuable articles

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Toad and the Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ugly toad mother, syllables, Dakota), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 knowing	advmod
2	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 sought	advcl
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 names	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 syllables	det
5	syllables	syllable	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 names	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 cry	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Dakota	det
8	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 cry	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Dakota	case
10	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 syllables	nmod
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 names	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 names	det
13	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 knowing	advcl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 ones	case
15	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 ones	amod
16	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 names	nmod
17	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 ones	acl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 knowing	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 mother	det
20	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 mother	amod
21	toad	toad	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mother	compound
22	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sought	nsubj
23	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	to	to	PART	_	25 please	mark
25	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 sought	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 boy	det
27	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ear	nmod:poss
28	's	's	PART	_	27 boy	case
29	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 please	obj
30	with	with	ADP	_	32 names	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 names	det
32	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 please	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 articles	case
34	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 articles	amod
35	articles	article	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 names	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not know	gerund	the ugly toad mother not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present	the syllables of a Dakota's cry	the names	of loved ones	tree rules
3	love	participle				vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer
4	go	participle		loved ones not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	seek	past	the ugly toad mother			tree rules
6	please not said to happen	to-infinitive	the ugly toad mother not said here	the boy's ear	with the names of valuable articles	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ear=Experiencer
7	cry		a Dakota			nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
8	name			valuable articles		nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Project Gutenberg book 338 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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