Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 6

The Fire said “Hsss--tchu!” and was gone.

Who acts: Fire · What happens: say, be · 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 (Fire), 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 Fire	det
2	Fire	Fire	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 Hsss	punct
5	Hsss	Hsss	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	ccomp
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 tchu	punct
7	tchu	tchu	X	Foreign=Yes	5 Hsss	dep
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 Hsss	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 Hsss	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 gone	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gone	cop
12	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Fire						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the Fire not said here					gone property	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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