Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 119
“Oh, Iktomi, set me free!” begged the tree-bound Dakota brave.
Who acts: Iktomi, bound Dakota · What happens: set, beg, bind · To what, where: bound Dakota · 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, bound Dakota), 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 | _ | 6 set | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 Iktomi | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 set | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Iktomi | punct |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 begged | parataxis |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 set | obj |
| 8 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 set | xcomp |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
| 11 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Dakota | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bound | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 tree | punct |
| 15 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 Dakota | amod |
| 16 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 begged | obj |
| 17 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 begged | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set in a quote | past | Iktomi | the bound Dakota = dakota | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | the bound Dakota | brave property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bind | participle | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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