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title: “If you put us on to boil,” said the Fish, “there will be trouble.” — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: “If you put us on to boil,” said the Fish, “there will be trouble.” Who acts: you, Fish. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Warlike Seven, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 45

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“If you put us on to boil,” said the Fish, “there will be trouble.”

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**Who acts:** you, Fish · **What happens:** put on, say, be · **To what, where:** us, trouble · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Warlike Seven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg338:15:45
# text = “If you put us on to boil,” said the Fish, “there will be trouble.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	put	put	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	boil	boil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Fish	Fish	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	cop	_	_
19	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put on** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | you |  | us |  |  | to boil | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent we=Goal |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Fish |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | infinitive | the Fish *not said here* | trouble |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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