Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 74
“Yes, my daughter!” answered the chieftain, springing to his feet.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: answer, spring · To what, where: chieftain, feet
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 (daughter), 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 | _ | 5 daughter | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 daughter | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 5 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 daughter | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 daughter | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chieftain | det |
| 10 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 springing | punct |
| 12 | springing | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 answered | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feet | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 springing | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | my daughter | the chieftain | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent chieftain=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | spring | gerund | my daughter not said here | chieftain's feet | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination |
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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