Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 78

“Ha! ha! 'tis he! the man with the magic arrow!” laughed Iktomi.

Who acts: tis, man · What happens: man, laugh · To what, where: Iktomi

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 (tis, man), 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	_	11 man	punct
2	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	7 tis	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ha	punct
4	ha	ha	INTJ	_	2 Ha	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ha	punct
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Ha	punct
7	tis	tis	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	nsubj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 man	nsubj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 man	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 man	det
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 laughed	nsubj
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 arrow	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 arrow	det
14	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 arrow	amod
15	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 man	nmod
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 man	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 man	punct
18	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 laughed	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	man in a quote		tis					with the magic arrow	tree rules
2	laugh	past	the man	Iktomi					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iktomi=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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