Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 149

I think he would jump out before he could burn into smoke and cinders,” answered his comrade.

Who acts: I, spirit · What happens: think, jump out, burn, answer · To what, where: smoke, comrade · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Fawn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, spirit), 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 jump	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 jump	aux
5	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 think	ccomp
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 jump	advmod
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 burn	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 burn	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 burn	aux
10	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 jump	advcl
11	into	into	ADP	_	12 smoke	case
12	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 burn	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cinders	cc
14	cinders	cinder	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 smoke	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 think	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 answered	punct
17	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 think	parataxis
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 comrade	nmod:poss
19	comrade	comrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 answered	obj
20	.	.	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	jump out	would	spirit			out property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	burn	could	spirit		smoke and cinders		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
4	answer speech: assert in a quote	past		spirit's comrade			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent comrade=Eventuality

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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