Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 46
Show us what is in your blanket!” cried out other voices.
Who acts: you · What happens: show, be, cry out · To what, where: us, blanket, other voices · 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: 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 | Show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Show | iobj |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 blanket | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 blanket | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 blanket | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 7 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Show | ccomp |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Show | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Show | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 cried | compound:prt |
| 12 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 voices | amod |
| 13 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cried | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | imperative | you not said here | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | your blanket | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express in a quote | past | you not said here | other voices | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Topic |
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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