Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 50

I think I'll run up there and take it back!” said he, pointing his long chin toward the large gray stone.

Who acts: I, grandfather · What happens: think, run up, take back, say, point · To what, where: cold, long chin · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 think	nsubj
2	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 run	nsubj
4	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 run	aux
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 think	ccomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 run	compound:prt
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 run	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 take	cc
9	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 run	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 take	obj
11	back	back	ADV	_	9 take	advmod
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 think	conj
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pointing	punct
17	pointing	point	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 said	advcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 chin	nmod:poss
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 chin	amod
20	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pointing	obj
21	toward	toward	ADP	_	25 stone	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stone	det
23	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stone	amod
24	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 stone	amod
25	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pointing	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	run up	future	I		there		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	take back	infinitive	I not said here	cold			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past	grandfather				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	point in a quote	gerund	grandfather not said here	grandfather's long chin		toward the large gray stone	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chin=Patient

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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