Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 74
“My son, did my voice bring tears to your eyes?
Who acts: son · What happens: bring · To what, where: tears, eyes
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 (son), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bring | aux |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 voice | nmod:poss |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bring | nsubj |
| 8 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bring | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bring | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | past · do-support | My son | tears | your eyes | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tear=Theme to eye=Destination |
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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