Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 118
Hooting and dancing beneath the tree, he said: “I shall kill the red eagle; I shall wed the chieftain's beautiful daughter!”
Who acts: avenger · What happens: hoot, dance, say, kill, wed · To what, where: tree, red eagle, beautiful daughter · 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 (avenger), 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 | Hooting | hoot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 dancing | cc |
| 3 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Hooting | conj |
| 4 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dancing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hooting | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 kill | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 kill | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 kill | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 kill | aux |
| 14 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 eagle | det |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eagle | amod |
| 17 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kill | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 wed | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 wed | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 wed | aux |
| 21 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 kill | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 chieftain | det |
| 23 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 chieftain | case |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 daughter | amod |
| 26 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wed | obj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 kill | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hoot | gerund | avenger not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | dance | gerund | avenger not said here | the tree | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | avenger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | shall | avenger | the red eagle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wed in a quote | shall | avenger | the chieftain's beautiful daughter | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
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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