Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 57

Let him win for himself one of my beautiful daughters,” he had said to his messengers, for the old story of the badger's man-son was known all over the level lands.

Who acts: you, tale, level · What happens: let, win, say, know, land · To what, where: tale, messengers · 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 (you, tale, level), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 one	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 one	nsubj
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 win	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 daughters	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 daughters	nmod:poss
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 daughters	amod
10	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 daughters	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 said	nsubj
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 said	aux
15	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Let	parataxis
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 messengers	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 messengers	nmod:poss
18	messengers	messenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 said	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 story	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	23 story	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 story	det
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 story	amod
23	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	parataxis
24	of	of	ADP	_	30 son	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 badger	det
26	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 son	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 badger	case
28	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 son	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 man	punct
30	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 known	obl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 known	aux:pass
32	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 story	parataxis
33	all	all	ADV	_	37 lands	advmod
34	over	over	SCONJ	_	37 lands	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 level	det
36	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 lands	nsubj
37	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 known	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	tale			tree rules
2	win	infinitive	tale not said here			for one of my beautiful daughters	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for one=Beneficiary
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past · perfect	tale		tale's messengers		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to messenger=Recipient
4	know in a quote	past · passive				of the badger's man son	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: of son=Stimulus
5	land in a quote	present	the level			all property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=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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