Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 131
“It may be a spirit,” thought she.
Who acts: creature, spirit · What happens: be, think · To what, where: spirit, toss · 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 (creature, spirit), 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 spirit | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 spirit | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 spirit | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 spirit | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 spirit | det |
| 6 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thought | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 spirit | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 spirit | punct |
| 9 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 thought | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | may | creature | a spirit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | a spirit | toss | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=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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