Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 111
“Grow fast, grow fast to the bark of the tree,” he whispered.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: grow, whisper · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Iktomi), 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 | _ | 2 Grow | punct |
| 2 | Grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 whispered | ccomp |
| 3 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 Grow | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 grow | punct |
| 5 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Grow | advcl |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 grow | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 bark | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bark | det |
| 9 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grow | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bark | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Grow | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Grow | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 whispered | nsubj |
| 16 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow in a quote | infinitive | fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | grow in a quote | present | to the bark of the tree; fast property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | past | Iktomi | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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