Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 76
Do you not like my wailing better?”
Who acts: my · What happens: wail
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 (my), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 better | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 better | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 wailing | advmod |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 wailing | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wailing | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wailing | wailing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 better | obl |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 better | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wail | my | nom wailing «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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