Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 107
“Such spindle legs cannot stand to fight by daylight!” shouted the brave ones who were terror-struck the night before by the name “Iya.”
Who acts: Such spindle legs, brave ones, name · What happens: not stand, fight, shout, strike · To what, where: brave ones · 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 (Such spindle legs, brave ones, name), 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 | _ | 7 stand | punct |
| 2 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 legs | amod |
| 3 | spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 legs | compound |
| 4 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stand | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stand | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 stand | advmod |
| 7 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 shouted | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 fight | mark |
| 9 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stand | xcomp |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 daylight | case |
| 11 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fight | obl |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 stand | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 stand | punct |
| 14 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ones | det |
| 16 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ones | amod |
| 17 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 shouted | obj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 struck | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 struck | aux:pass |
| 20 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 struck | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 terror | punct |
| 22 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 ones | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 night | det |
| 24 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 struck | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | before | before | ADV | _ | 22 struck | advmod |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 name | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 name | det |
| 28 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 struck | obl |
| 29 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Iya | punct |
| 30 | Iya | Iya | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 name | appos |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 Iya | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Iya | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stand in a quote | can | Such spindle legs | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | fight in a quote | to-infinitive | Such spindle legs not said here | by daylight | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | past | the brave ones | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | strike | past · passive | the name | the brave ones | night | before property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent subject=Instrument |
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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