Old Indian Legends, Manstin, the Rabbit, sentence 93

“Friend, my friend, I have need of you!

Who acts: Friend · What happens: have, need · To what, where: need, you

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Manstin, the Rabbit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Friend), 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	_	2 Friend	punct
2	Friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 friend	punct
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 friend	nmod:poss
5	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Friend	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Friend	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 have	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 need	nmod
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	Friend and my friend	need of you					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient
2	need in a quote			you					nom need «state transitive»: of=patient

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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