Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 15
Great-grandfather, give me meat to eat!” he cried.
Who acts: Great grandfather, grandfather · What happens: give, eat, cry · To what, where: meat, me
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi's Blanket. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great grandfather, grandfather), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grandfather | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Great | punct |
| 3 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 eat | mark |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 meat | acl |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | infinitive | Great grandfather | meat | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient meat=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | Great grandfather not said here | meat not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | grandfather | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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