Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 97

I would get dizzy and fall,” pleaded Iktomi.

Who acts: I · What happens: get, fall, plead · To what, where: Iktomi · 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 (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	3 get	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 get	aux
3	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 pleaded	ccomp
4	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 get	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fall	cc
6	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 get	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 get	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 get	punct
9	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 pleaded	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 pleaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	would	I		dizzy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	fall	infinitive	I not said here			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	plead speech: request in a quote	past		Iktomi		tree rules

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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