Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 56
Others exclaimed: “Let us carry them to the lake of muddy water and drown them!”
Who acts: Others, us · What happens: exclaim, let, carry, drown · To what, where: us, others, lake · 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 (Others, 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 | Others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 2 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Let | punct |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Let | punct |
| 5 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 Let | obj |
| 7 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Let | xcomp |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 carry | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 lake | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lake | det |
| 11 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carry | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 water | amod |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lake | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drown | cc |
| 16 | drown | drown | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 Let | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 drown | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Let | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | Others | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | carry in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | others = other | the lake of muddy water | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to lake=Destination | |||
| 4 | drown in a quote | infinitive | others = other | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: 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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