Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 50
“Oop! oop!” called some to their mates.
What happens: call · To what, where: Oop · 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: 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 | _ | 2 Oop | punct |
| 2 | Oop | oop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | obl |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 oop | punct |
| 4 | oop | oop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oop | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oop | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oop | punct |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 called | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 mates | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mates | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mates | mate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 some | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | Oop and oop | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent some=Topic to mate=Recipient |
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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