Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 46
These are the words of him you see holding a baby in his arms.”
Who acts: These, you, words · What happens: be, see, hold · To what, where: words, baby, arms
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 (These, you, words), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 words | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 words | nmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 see | nsubj |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 words | acl:relcl |
| 9 | holding | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 see | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 baby | det |
| 11 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 holding | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 arms | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 arms | nmod:poss |
| 14 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 holding | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | These | the words | of dance | tree rules | |||
| 2 | see | present | you | the words not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hold | gerund | the words not said here | a baby | dance's arms | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent baby=Theme in arm=Location |
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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