Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 37

Allow me to pass!” which was an apology.

Who acts: you · What happens: allow, pass, be · To what, where: me, apology · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Badger and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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	Allow	allow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Allow	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 pass	mark
4	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 apology	advcl
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 pass	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 pass	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 apology	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 apology	cop
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 apology	det
10	apology	apology	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Allow	parataxis
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Allow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	allow	imperative	you not said here		me	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
2	pass	to-infinitive				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is a in a quote	past		a apology		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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