Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 83
“Mother,” went on the child voice, “tell me one thing.
Who acts: Mother · What happens: go, tell · To what, where: child voice, one thing, pretty creature · 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 (Mother), 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 | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
| 2 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 voice | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 voice | det |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 voice | compound |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 went | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | iobj |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 thing | nummod |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tell | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Mother | the child voice | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on voice=Location | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | infinitive | Mother not said here | one thing | the pretty creature = creature | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient thing=Topic |
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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