Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 60
There he peeped up out of the water and, waving a hand at the crowd, sang out, “This is where I live!”
Who acts: Turtle, This · What happens: peep up, wave, sing out, be, live · To what, where: hand, crowd · 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, This), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 peeped | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 peeped | nsubj |
| 3 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 peeped | compound:prt |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 water | det |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 peeped | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 waving | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 waving | punct |
| 11 | waving | wave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 peeped | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hand | det |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waving | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 crowd | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 crowd | det |
| 16 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 waving | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sang | punct |
| 18 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 peeped | conj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 sang | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 live | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 where | punct |
| 22 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 where | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 where | cop |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 live | advmod |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 live | nsubj |
| 26 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 sang | conj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 peeped | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 peeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep up | past | Turtle | there | out the water | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent out water=Theme | |||
| 2 | wave | gerund | Turtle not said here | a hand | the crowd | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 3 | sing out speech: express | past | Turtle not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | This | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | live in a quote | present | Turtle | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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