Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 21

“The young man is not handsome after all!” whispered the woman in her husband's ear.

Who acts: young man, woman · What happens: not be, whisper · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (young man, woman), 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	_	7 handsome	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 handsome	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 handsome	cop
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 handsome	advmod
7	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 whispered	ccomp
8	after	after	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 handsome	obl
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 handsome	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 handsome	punct
12	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 whispered	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 ear	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 husband	nmod:poss
17	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ear	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 husband	case
19	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 woman	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is in a quote	present	the young man				after all	handsome property	tree rules
2	whisper speech: express	past	the woman						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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