Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 57
“Oh, then let us hear your songs!” cried the curious ducks.
Who acts: us, curious ducks, your · What happens: let, hear, cry, sing · To what, where: us, songs · 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 (us, curious ducks, your), 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 | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 let | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 let | advmod |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cried | ccomp |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 songs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hear | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ducks | det |
| 14 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ducks | amod |
| 15 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cried | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | your songs | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the curious ducks | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sing in a quote | your | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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