Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 62
“E han!” whooped the Fish, “this is where I live!”
Who acts: E han, this · What happens: whoop, be, live · To what, where: Fish · 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 (E han, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 han | punct |
| 2 | E | e | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 han | compound |
| 3 | han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 whooped | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 han | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 han | punct |
| 6 | whooped | whoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fish | det |
| 8 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 whooped | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 live | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 where | punct |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 where | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 where | cop |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 live | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 live | nsubj |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 whooped | conj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 whooped | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 whooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whoop speech: other | past | E han | the Fish | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | this | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live in a quote | present | E han = han | 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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