Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 102

“I shall eat you in the sight of a noon-day sun!” cried Iya in his vain rage, when he spied them encamped beyond a river.

Who acts: I, sun, people · What happens: eat, cry, spy, encamp, sight, rage · To what, where: you, sight, vain rage, day sun · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iya, the Camp-eater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sun, people), 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	_	4 eat	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 eat	nsubj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	aux
4	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cried	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 eat	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 sight	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sight	det
8	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eat	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	14 sun	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sun	det
11	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 day	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 noon	punct
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sun	compound
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sight	nmod
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	Iya	Iya	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 cried	flat
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 rage	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 rage	nmod:poss
21	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 rage	amod
22	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cried	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 spied	punct
24	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 spied	advmod
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 spied	nsubj
26	spied	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cried	conj
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 encamped	nsubj
28	encamped	encamp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 spied	ccomp
29	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	31 river	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 river	det
31	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 encamped	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat in a quote	shall	I	you	the sight of a day sun		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past			sun's vain rage		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	spy	past	sun				tree rules
4	encamp	past	people			beyond a river	tree rules
5	sight in a quote			a day sun			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
6	rage		sun				nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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