Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 24
“You see how it is,” said the Fish, lashing his tail impatiently, “these people were not warriors!”
Who acts: You, head, Fish, people · What happens: see, be, say, lash, not be · To what, where: tail, warriors · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (You, head, Fish, people), 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 | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 is | advmod |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 is | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Fish | det |
| 11 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lashing | punct |
| 13 | lashing | lash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tail | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lashing | obj |
| 16 | impatiently | impatiently | ADV | _ | 13 lashing | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 warriors | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 warriors | punct |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 people | det |
| 20 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 warriors | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 warriors | cop |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 warriors | advmod |
| 23 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lashing | obl |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 23 warriors | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 lashing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | head | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | the Fish | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | lash | gerund | the Fish not said here | Fly's tail | impatiently property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | |||
| 5 | not is a in a quote | past | this people | warriors | tree rules |
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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