Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 25
“Come!” he said, “let us go on to make war.”
Who acts: Fly, us · What happens: come, say, let, go on, make · To what, where: us, war · 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 (Fly, us), 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 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | parataxis |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | on | on | ADV | _ | 11 go | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 make | mark |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 go | advcl |
| 15 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | Fly | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | go on in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | us not said here | war | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset war=Product |
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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