Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 88

When by chance he started off alone, she shoved out one of her own children after him, saying: “Do not come back without your big brother.”

Who acts: son, mother · What happens: start off, shove out, say, not come back · To what, where: one · 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 (son, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 started	advmod
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 chance	case
3	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 started	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 started	nsubj
5	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 shoved	advcl
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 started	compound:prt
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 started	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 started	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 shoved	nsubj
10	shoved	shove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 shoved	compound:prt
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 shoved	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 children	case
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 children	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 children	amod
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 one	nmod
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 children	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 saying	punct
20	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 shoved	advcl
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
23	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	25 come	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 come	advmod
25	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 saying	ccomp
26	back	back	ADV	_	25 come	advmod
27	without	without	ADP	_	30 brother	case
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 brother	nmod:poss
29	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 brother	amod
30	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 come	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	start off	past	son		by chance; alone property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	shove out	past	mother	one of mother's own children after son		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	say speech: assert	gerund	mother not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	not come back in a quote	infinitive · do-support			without your big brother	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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