Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 67

Then the Fish and the Turtle dived into the mud; and Iya said: “They are not in me.”

Who acts: Fish, Iya, legs · What happens: dive, say, not be · To what, where: mud · 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 (Fish, Iya, legs), 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	7 dived	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fish	det
3	Fish	Fish	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dived	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Turtle	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Turtle	det
6	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Fish	conj
7	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 mud	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mud	det
10	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dived	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 said	cc
13	Iya	Iya	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dived	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 me	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 me	punct
17	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 me	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 me	cop
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 me	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 said	ccomp
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dived	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 dived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	dive	past	the Fish and the Turtle	the mud	then		vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into mud=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	Iya				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	not is in a quote	present	legs = leg			in Iya	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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