Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 56

He said: “I am strong, very strong!”

Who acts: crackling · What happens: say, be · 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 (crackling), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 strong	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 strong	punct
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 strong	nsubj
6	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 strong	cop
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 strong	punct
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 strong	advmod
10	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 strong	conj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 strong	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 strong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: express	past	crackling		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	crackling	strong property	tree rules
3	be in a quote		crackling not said here		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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