Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 126

Cut me loose!” moaned the prisoner.

Who acts: you · What happens: cut, lose, moan · To what, where: me, prisoner · 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 (you), 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	Cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Cut	iobj
3	loose	lose	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Cut	conj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Cut	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 moaned	punct
6	moaned	moan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Cut	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 prisoner	det
8	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moaned	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	cut	imperative	you not said here		me	tree rules
2	lose	infinitive	you not said here			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	moan in a quote	past		the prisoner		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent prisoner=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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