Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 64

Then a wise chief said: “Iya, the Eater, shall come and swallow the lake!”

Who acts: wise chief, Iya · What happens: say, come, swallow · To what, where: 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 (wise chief, Iya), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 said	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 chief	det
3	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 chief	amod
4	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
8	Iya	Iya	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 come	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 Eater	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Eater	det
11	Eater	Eater	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Iya	appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
13	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 swallow	cc
16	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 lake	det
18	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 swallow	obj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	a wise chief		then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come in a quote	shall	Iya			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	swallow in a quote	infinitive	Iya not said here	the lake		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lake=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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