Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 44

Let us build a fire and boil them both!”

Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, build, boil · To what, where: us, fire

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, 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fire	det
5	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 build	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 boil	cc
7	boil	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 build	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 boil	obj
9	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 them	appos
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us	tree rules
2	build	infinitive	us not said here	a fire	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product
3	boil	present	us not said here	Fire	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=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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