Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 45

Oh! oh!” said he, flapping his wings, “I must try my wings!

Who acts: shame, I · What happens: say, flap, try · To what, where: wings · 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 (shame, I), 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	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 said	discourse
2	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
3	oh	oh	INTJ	_	1 Oh	discourse
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Oh	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 flapping	punct
9	flapping	flap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 said	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wings	nmod:poss
11	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 flapping	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 try	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 try	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 try	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 try	aux
16	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 flapping	conj
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wings	nmod:poss
18	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 try	obj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	shame		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	flap in a quote	gerund	shame not said here	shame's wings	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
3	try	must	I	my wings	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=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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