Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 82
Oh, no, I cannot give away the pretty creature I have taught to call me 'mother' all these many winters.”
Who acts: I, pretty creature · What happens: not give away, teach, call · To what, where: pretty creature, I, me · Speech: someone speaks here
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, pretty creature), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 give | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 1 Oh | discourse |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 give | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 give | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 give | advmod |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | away | away | ADP | _ | 8 give | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 creature | det |
| 11 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 creature | amod |
| 12 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 taught | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 taught | aux |
| 15 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 creature | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 call | mark |
| 17 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 taught | xcomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 call | obj |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 mother | punct |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 call | xcomp |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 mother | punct |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 winters | det:predet |
| 23 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 winters | det |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 winters | amod |
| 25 | winters | winter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 call | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not give away | can | I | the pretty creature | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent creature=Theme | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | present · perfect · passive | the pretty creature not said here | I | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | call | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | winter | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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