Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 13
“How, my friend!” said the voice again, this time close at his side.
Who acts: friend · What happens: say, close · To what, where: voice, side · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Muskrat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 voice | det |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 said | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 close | punct |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 close | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | advcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 side | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 side | nmod:poss |
| 18 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 close | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | my friend | the voice | again | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic | |||
| 2 | close | infinitive | my friend not said here | Iktomi's side | time | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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