Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 143
This was a sign of gratitude used when words failed to interpret strong emotion.
Who acts: This, words · What happens: be, use, fail, not interpret · To what, where: sign, strong emotion
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 (This, words), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 sign | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sign | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sign | det |
| 4 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gratitude | case |
| 6 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sign | nmod |
| 7 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sign | acl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 failed | advmod |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 failed | nsubj |
| 10 | failed | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 used | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 interpret | mark |
| 12 | interpret | interpret | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 failed | xcomp |
| 13 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 emotion | amod |
| 14 | emotion | emotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 interpret | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sign | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | a sign | of gratitude | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | participle | a sign not said here | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fail | past | words | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | not interpret | to-infinitive | words not said here | strong emotion | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent emotion=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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