Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 113

Suddenly dropping the arrow and standing erect, Iktomi said aloud: “Grow fast to the bark of the tree!”

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: drop, stand, say, grow · To what, where: arrow · 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	2 dropping	advmod
2	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 said	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 arrow	det
4	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropping	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 standing	cc
6	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 dropping	conj
7	erect	erect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 standing	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 dropping	punct
9	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	10 said	advmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 Grow	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 Grow	punct
14	Grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
15	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 Grow	advmod
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 bark	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bark	det
18	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 Grow	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 tree	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tree	det
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bark	nmod
22	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 Grow	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	14 Grow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drop	gerund	Iktomi not said here	the arrow	suddenly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme
2	stand	gerund	Iktomi not said here		erect property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: express	past	Iktomi		aloud property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	grow in a quote	infinitive			to the bark of the tree; fast property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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