Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 99

“'Tis he! 'tis he!” cried the mother, for she knew him.

Who acts: Tis, Tis tis, mother · What happens: tis, cry, know · To what, where: mother, Tis · 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 (Tis, Tis tis, 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	_	3 Tis	punct
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Tis	punct
3	Tis	Tis	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tis	compound
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 Tis	flat
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 Tis	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 Tis	punct
7	tis	tis	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	nsubj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 tis	nsubj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 tis	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 tis	punct
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mother	det
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cried	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knew	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 knew	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knew	nsubj
17	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	parataxis
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 knew	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tis in a quote		Tis		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	Tis tis	the mother	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Topic
3	know	past	mother	Tis	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus

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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