Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 9

I'd be so glad to sit upon a very high tree and bask in the summer sun like you!” said he suddenly, pointing his bony finger up toward the peacock, who was eyeing the stranger below, turning his head from side to side.

Who acts: I, creature, peacock · What happens: be, sit, bask, say, point, eye · To what, where: high tree, summer sun, bony finger, stranger, head, side · 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, creature, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 glad	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 glad	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 glad	cop
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 glad	advmod
5	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 said	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sit	mark
7	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 glad	xcomp
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 tree	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 tree	det
10	very	very	ADV	_	11 high	advmod
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tree	amod
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bask	cc
14	bask	bask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 sit	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 sun	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sun	det
17	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sun	compound
18	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bask	obl
19	like	like	ADP	_	20 you	case
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 sun	nmod
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 glad	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 glad	punct
23	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pointing	nsubj
25	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	27 pointing	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 pointing	punct
27	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 said	ccomp
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 finger	nmod:poss
29	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 finger	amod
30	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pointing	obj
31	up	up	ADV	_	30 finger	advmod
32	toward	toward	ADP	_	34 peacock	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 peacock	det
34	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 pointing	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 eyeing	punct
36	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 eyeing	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 eyeing	aux
38	eyeing	eye	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 peacock	acl:relcl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 stranger	det
40	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 eyeing	obj
41	below	below	ADV	_	40 stranger	advmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 turning	punct
43	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 pointing	conj
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 head	nmod:poss
45	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 turning	obj
46	from	from	ADP	_	47 side	case
47	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 turning	obl
48	to	to	ADP	_	49 side	case
49	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 turning	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	would	I			glad property	tree rules
2	sit	to-infinitive	I not said here		a high tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon tree=Location
3	bask	present	I not said here		the summer sun like you		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	say speech: assert in a quote	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	point in a quote	gerund	creature	creature's bony finger		toward the peacock; suddenly property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient
6	eye in a quote	past · progressive	the peacock	the stranger			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus
7	turn in a quote	gerund	creature not said here	creature's head	side	to side	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme from side=Source to side=Trajectory

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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