Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 88
“I'll beg meat for you!” said he in an unsteady voice.
Who acts: distance · What happens: beg, say · To what, where: meat, unsteady voice · 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 (distance), 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 | _ | 4 beg | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 beg | nsubj |
| 3 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 beg | aux |
| 4 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beg | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 beg | obl |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 beg | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 beg | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 14 | unsteady | unsteady | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voice | amod |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request in a quote | future | distance | meat | for you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent meat=Recipient for you=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | distance | a unsteady voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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