Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 63

“Oh, what have we done!” said the frightened people, “this will be our undoing.”

Who acts: we, frightened people, this · What happens: do, say, be · To what, where: undoing · 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 (we, frightened people, 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	_	10 said	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	7 done	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 done	obj
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 done	aux
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 done	nsubj
7	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 said	ccomp
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 done	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 done	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 people	det
12	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 people	amod
13	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 said	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 undoing	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 undoing	punct
16	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 undoing	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 undoing	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 undoing	cop
19	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 undoing	nmod:poss
20	undoing	undoing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 people	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do in a quote	present · perfect	we		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	say speech: express	past	the frightened people		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	future	this	our undoing	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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