Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 86
“We must go away,” said the chieftain, leading them into the night.
Who acts: We, chieftain · What happens: go away, say, lead · To what, where: bells · 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 (We, chieftain), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 go | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 chieftain | det |
| 10 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leading | punct |
| 12 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | advcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 leading | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 night | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leading | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away in a quote | must | We | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the chieftain | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lead | gerund | the chieftain not said here | bells = bell | night | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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