Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 40

“Oh, what a shame that bright feathers cannot fly into the sky!” cried the peacock.

Who acts: bright feathers, peacock · What happens: not fly, cry · To what, where: shame, sky · 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 (bright feathers, peacock), 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	_	4 what	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 what	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 shame	det
6	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cried	nsubj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 fly	obj
8	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feathers	amod
9	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 fly	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fly	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 fly	advmod
12	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 shame	acl:relcl
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 sky	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sky	det
15	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fly	obl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 fly	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 fly	punct
18	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 peacock	det
20	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cried	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not fly in a quote	can	bright feathers	a shame		the sky			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent that=Theme into sky=Trajectory
2	cry speech: express	past	the peacock						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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