Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 38

“He-he-he!” groaned the chieftain.

Who acts: eagle · What happens: groan · To what, where: chieftain

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 (eagle), 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	_	2 He	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 groaned	nsubj
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 He	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 He	nsubj
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 he	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 He	conj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 He	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 He	punct
9	groaned	groan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 chieftain	det
11	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 groaned	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 groaned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	groan	past	eagle	the chieftain					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent chieftain=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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