Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 117
Still the old tree man called for help.
What happens: call · To what, where: old tree man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Ducks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 5 man | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | compound |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 man | acl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 help | case |
| 8 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the old tree man not said here | for help | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for help=Recipient |
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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