Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 50
The Turtle in a whispered reply said: “We shall die!”
Who acts: Turtle, We · What happens: whisper, say, die · 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 (Turtle, We), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Turtle | det |
| 2 | Turtle | Turtle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 reply | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 reply | det |
| 5 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 reply | amod |
| 6 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Turtle | nmod |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 die | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 die | punct |
| 10 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 die | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 die | aux |
| 12 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 die | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | participle | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | the Turtle in a whispered reply | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | die in a quote | shall | We | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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