Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 5
Again and again sang a yellow-breasted birdie--“Koda Ni Dakota!”
What happens: sing, breast · To what, where: yellow breasted birdie
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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 4 sang | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sang | cc |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 sang | advmod |
| 4 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 birdie | det |
| 6 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 birdie | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 yellow | punct |
| 8 | breasted | breast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 birdie | amod |
| 9 | birdie | birdie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sang | obj |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 Dakota | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Dakota | punct |
| 12 | Koda | Koda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ni | compound |
| 13 | Ni | Ni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Dakota | compound |
| 14 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 birdie | appos |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Dakota | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | a yellow breasted birdie | again; again | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location birdie=Theme | ||||
| 2 | breast | participle | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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