Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 33

Again the Fish said: “Shu... hi pi!”

Who acts: Fish · What happens: say · To what, where: Shu · 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 (Fish), 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	Again	again	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fish	det
3	Fish	Fish	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Shu	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 Shu	punct
7	Shu	shu	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	obj
8	...	...	PUNCT	_	10 pi	punct
9	hi	hi	ADJ	_	10 pi	amod
10	pi	pi	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Shu	appos
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 pi	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 pi	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Fish	Shu			again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent shu=Topic

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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