Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 96
I cannot climb so high.
Who acts: I · What happens: not climb
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 climb | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 climb | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 climb | advmod |
| 4 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 high | advmod |
| 6 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 climb | advmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not climb | can | I | vn run-51.3.2 «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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