Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 81

I cannot keep him longer, I fear.

Who acts: I · What happens: not keep, fear · To what, where: child

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 keep	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 keep	advmod
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	obj
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 keep	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fear	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 fear	nsubj
9	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	advcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not keep	can	I	child				long property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	fear	present	I						vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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