Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 79
And when the bird with the yellow breast sang loud again--“Koda Ni Dakota!
Who acts: bird · What happens: sing · To what, where: Ni Dakota
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 (bird), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sang | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 sang | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bird | det |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sang | nsubj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 breast | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 breast | det |
| 7 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 breast | amod |
| 8 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bird | nmod |
| 9 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 9 sang | advmod |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 sang | advmod |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 Dakota | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Dakota | punct |
| 14 | Koda | Koda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Ni | compound |
| 15 | Ni | Ni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Dakota | compound |
| 16 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sang | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | the bird with the yellow breast | Ni Dakota | again | loud property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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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