Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 94

But as they soared high into the blue sky they cried to one another: “Oh! your eyes are red-red!”

Who acts: half, eyes · What happens: soar, cry, be · To what, where: blue sky, one · 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 (half, eyes), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	11 cried	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 soared	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 soared	nsubj
4	soared	soar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cried	advcl
5	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 soared	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sky	det
8	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 sky	amod
9	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soared	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 cried	nsubj
11	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 one	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 cried	obl
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	13 one	fixed
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 red	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 red	punct
17	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	20 eyes	discourse
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 Oh	punct
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 eyes	nmod:poss
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 red	nsubj
21	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 red	cop
22	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 red	amod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 red	punct
24	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 cried	obl
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 red	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 red	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	soar	past	half		the blue sky	high property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into sky=Trajectory
2	cry speech: express	past	half	one			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient
3	is in a quote	present	your eyes			red property	tree rules

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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