Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 78
Returning he said: “My daughter, I hear nothing and see no sign of evil nigh.”
Who acts: I · What happens: return, say, hear, see · To what, where: nothing, sign · 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), 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 | Returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 said | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 daughter | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 daughter | punct |
| 6 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 7 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hear | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 hear | nsubj |
| 10 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | parataxis |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 hear | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 hear | conj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 sign | det |
| 15 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 evil | case |
| 17 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sign | amod |
| 18 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 17 evil | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | hear in a quote | present | I | nothing | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see in a quote | infinitive | I not said here | no sign | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus |
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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