Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 31
With a peculiar omission of syllables, he said: “Shu... hi pi!”
Who acts: stature · What happens: say, omit · To what, where: Shu, syllables · 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 (stature), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 omission | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 omission | det |
| 3 | peculiar | peculiar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 omission | compound |
| 4 | omission | omission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 syllables | case |
| 6 | syllables | syllable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 omission | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 omission | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Shu | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Shu | punct |
| 12 | Shu | shu | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | ... | ... | PUNCT | _ | 15 pi | punct |
| 14 | hi | hi | ADJ | _ | 15 pi | amod |
| 15 | pi | pi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Shu | appos |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 pi | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Shu | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | stature | Shu | with a peculiar omission of syllables | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent shu=Theme with omission=Manner | |||
| 2 | omit | syllables | nom omission «act 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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