Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 132

“Oh! cut me loose! set me free!

What happens: cut, set · To what, where: spirit

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: 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	_	4 cut	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 cut	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 cut	iobj
6	loose	loose	ADV	_	4 cut	advmod
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 set	punct
8	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	conj
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 set	obj
10	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 set	xcomp
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut in a quote	past			a spirit = spirit			loose property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product
2	set in a quote	past		a spirit = spirit				free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient i=Result

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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