Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 22
It would be cowardly to leave a baby in the wild wood where prowl the hungry wolves!” answered an elderly man.
Who acts: spirit · What happens: be, leave, answer · To what, where: baby, wild wood, elderly man · 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 (spirit), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cowardly | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 cowardly | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cowardly | cop |
| 4 | cowardly | cowardly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 leave | mark |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cowardly | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 baby | det |
| 8 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leave | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 wood | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wood | det |
| 11 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wood | compound |
| 12 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leave | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 prowl | advmod |
| 14 | prowl | prowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wood | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wolves | det |
| 16 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wolves | amod |
| 17 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 leave | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 cowardly | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cowardly | punct |
| 20 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cowardly | parataxis |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | elderly | elderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 answered | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cowardly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | would | spirit | cowardly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | spirit not said here | a baby | the wild wood and prowl | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent baby=Theme wolf=Attribute | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | a elderly man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality |
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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