Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 89
Looking quickly up into the sky, he said in his heart, “The magician is out of sight.
Who acts: herd, magician · What happens: look up, say, be · To what, where: heart, sight · 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 (herd, magician), 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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 2 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 sky | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sky | det |
| 6 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 heart | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sight | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 sight | punct |
| 15 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 magician | det |
| 16 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sight | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 sight | cop |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 sight | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 sight | case |
| 20 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heart | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look up | gerund | herd not said here | into the sky; quickly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into sky=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | herd | herd's heart and sight | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in heart=Manner | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the magician | sight | tree rules |
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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