Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 44

Stop! halt!” urged one of the singers.

Who acts: you · What happens: stop, urge · To what, where: halt, one

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	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Stop	punct
3	halt	halt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stop	obj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Stop	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 urged	punct
6	urged	urge	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 urged	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 singers	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 singers	det
10	singers	singer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Stop	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here	halt					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality halt=Eventuality
2	urge in a quote	past	you not said here	one of the singers					vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=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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