Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 135

“Ah! hear the foolish fellow!

Who acts: you · What happens: hear · To what, where: foolish fellow

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: who acts (you), 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	_	4 hear	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	4 hear	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fellow	det
6	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fellow	amod
7	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	imperative	you not said here	the foolish fellow					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fellow=Stimulus

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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