Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 18
“Han, my son!” answered the woman, taking the bowl.
Who acts: Han · What happens: answer, take · To what, where: woman, bowl
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Shooting of the Red Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Han), 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 | _ | 2 Han | punct |
| 2 | Han | han | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Han | conj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Han | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Han | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 taking | punct |
| 12 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 answered | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bowl | det |
| 14 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taking | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Han and my son | the woman | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent woman=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | Han and my son not said here | the bowl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bowl=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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