Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 21
He would not be comforted, for he loved his cousin dearly.
Who acts: Fly · What happens: not comfort, love · To what, where: Fly, cousin
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Warlike Seven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fly), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 comforted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 comforted | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 comforted | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 comforted | aux:pass |
| 5 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 loved | punct |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 9 loved | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 loved | nsubj |
| 9 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 comforted | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cousin | nmod:poss |
| 11 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 loved | obj |
| 12 | dearly | dearly | ADV | _ | 9 loved | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 comforted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not comfort | would · passive | Fly | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | love | past | Fly | Fly's cousin | dearly property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cousin=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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