Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 8
I'll go to Inyan, the great-grandfather, and pray for food!” he exclaimed.
Who acts: I, Inyan · What happens: go, pray, exclaim · To what, where: Inyan
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, Inyan), 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 | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Inyan | case |
| 5 | Inyan | Inyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grandfather | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 grandfather | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 grandfather | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 great | punct |
| 10 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Inyan | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pray | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 pray | cc |
| 13 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 food | case |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pray | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 19 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | future | I | Inyan | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to inyan=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | pray | present | I not said here | for food | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for food=Theme | ||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express in a quote | past | Inyan | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: 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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