Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 7
“Ho!” hooted the others, “he could not fight, this one!”
Who acts: Ho · What happens: hoot, not fight · To what, where: others
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 (Ho), 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 | _ | 2 Ho | punct |
| 2 | Ho | ho | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hooted | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ho | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ho | punct |
| 5 | hooted | hoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 others | det |
| 7 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hooted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fight | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 fight | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fight | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fight | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 fight | advmod |
| 13 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hooted | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 one | punct |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fight | vocative |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 fight | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hoot | past | Ho | the others | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location other=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not fight in a quote | could | Ho | this one vocative | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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