Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 45
“If you put us on to boil,” said the Fish, “there will be trouble.”
Who acts: you, Fish · What happens: put on, say, be · To what, where: us, trouble · 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 (you, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 put | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | advcl |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 put | obj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 put | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 boil | case |
| 8 | boil | boil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Fish | det |
| 13 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 trouble | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 trouble | punct |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 18 be | expl |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 be | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 trouble | cop |
| 19 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Fish | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put on a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | us | to boil | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent we=Goal | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Fish | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | infinitive | the Fish not said here | trouble | tree rules |
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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