Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 83

“Mother, listen and tell me if this child is an evil spirit come to destroy our camp!” she whispered loud.

Who acts: Mother, child · What happens: listen, tell, be, come, destroy, whisper · To what, where: Mother, evil spirit, camp · 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 (Mother, child), 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	_	4 listen	punct
2	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listen	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Mother	punct
4	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 tell	cc
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 listen	conj
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 spirit	mark
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 child	det
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 spirit	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 spirit	cop
12	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 spirit	det
13	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 spirit	amod
14	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	ccomp
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 destroy	mark
17	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 come	xcomp
18	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 camp	nmod:poss
19	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 destroy	obj
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 whispered	nsubj
23	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 listen	parataxis
24	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 whispered	xcomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	listen in a quote	infinitive	Mother				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Mother not said here		Mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	this child	a evil spirit			tree rules
4	come in a quote	infinitive					tree rules
5	destroy in a quote	to-infinitive		our camp			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Patient
6	whisper speech: assert	past	mother			loud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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