Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 89
You are going to some feast or dance, may I ask?”
Who acts: You, I · What happens: go, ask · To what, where: feast
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, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 feast | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 feast | det |
| 6 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 going | obl |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 dance | cc |
| 8 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feast | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 ask | aux |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 ask | nsubj |
| 12 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | parataxis |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 ask | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | You | some feast or dance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to feast=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | may | I | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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