Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 38

“This little strange man says, 'Zuya unhipi!

Who acts: strange man · What happens: say · 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 (strange man), 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	_	6 says	punct
2	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 man	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 strange	amod
4	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 man	amod
5	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	nsubj
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 unhipi	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	10 unhipi	punct
9	Zuya	Zuya	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 unhipi	compound
10	unhipi	unhipi	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	ccomp
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	present	this strange man						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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