Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 74
“'He is coming!' said the people,” muttered old Iktomi.
Who acts: eagle, old Iktomi · What happens: come, say, mutter · 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 (eagle, old Iktomi), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
| 3 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 coming | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 coming | aux |
| 5 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 coming | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 people | det |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 muttered | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 people | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 people | punct |
| 13 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Iktomi | amod |
| 15 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 muttered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | present · progressive | eagle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: express in a quote | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | mutter speech: assert | past | old Iktomi | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: 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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