Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 109
“Oh, my friend, I was only talking of your big heart.”
Who acts: young man · What happens: talk
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), 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 | _ | 10 talking | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 10 talking | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 talking | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 talking | aux |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 talking | advmod |
| 10 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 heart | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heart | nmod:poss |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 heart | amod |
| 14 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 talking | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 talking | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 talking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | talk in a quote | past · progressive | the young man = man | of your big heart | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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