Old Indian Legends, Old Indian Legends, sentence 4
IKTOMI AND THE DUCKS IKTOMI'S BLANKET IKTOMI AND THE MUSKRAT IKTOMI AND THE COYOTE IKTOMI AND THE FAWN THE BADGER AND THE BEAR THE TREE-BOUND SHOOTING OF THE RED EAGLE IKTOMI AND THE TURTLE DANCE IN A BUFFALO SKULL THE TOAD AND THE BOY IYA, THE CAMP-EATER MANSTIN, THE RABBIT THE WARLIKE SEVEN
What happens: shoot · To what, where: RED EAGLE IKTOMI, BUFFALO SKULL
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Old Indian Legends. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IKTOMI | IKTOMI | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 IKTOMI | cc |
| 3 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 DUCKS | det |
| 4 | DUCKS | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 IKTOMI | nsubj |
| 5 | IKTOMI | IKTOMI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 BLANKET | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 'S | 's | PART | _ | 5 IKTOMI | case |
| 7 | BLANKET | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 IKTOMI | nmod:desc |
| 8 | IKTOMI | IKTOMI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 IKTOMI | conj |
| 9 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 MUSKRAT | cc |
| 10 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 MUSKRAT | det |
| 11 | MUSKRAT | muskrat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 IKTOMI | conj |
| 12 | IKTOMI | IKTOMI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 IKTOMI | flat |
| 13 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 COYOTE | cc |
| 14 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 COYOTE | det |
| 15 | COYOTE | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 IKTOMI | conj |
| 16 | IKTOMI | IKTOMI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 IKTOMI | flat |
| 17 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 BADGER | cc |
| 18 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 FAWN | det |
| 19 | FAWN | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 BADGER | nsubj |
| 20 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 BADGER | det |
| 21 | BADGER | BADGER | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 IKTOMI | conj |
| 22 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 BEAR | cc |
| 23 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 BEAR | det |
| 24 | BEAR | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 IKTOMI | conj |
| 25 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 SHOOTING | det |
| 26 | TREE | TREE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 SHOOTING | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 TREE | punct |
| 28 | BOUND | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 SHOOTING | amod |
| 29 | SHOOTING | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 IKTOMI | appos |
| 30 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 34 IKTOMI | case |
| 31 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 IKTOMI | det |
| 32 | RED | RED | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 IKTOMI | flat |
| 33 | EAGLE | EAGLE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 IKTOMI | compound |
| 34 | IKTOMI | IKTOMI | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 SHOOTING | nmod |
| 35 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 DANCE | cc |
| 36 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 DANCE | det |
| 37 | TURTLE | TURTLE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 DANCE | compound |
| 38 | DANCE | DANCE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 IKTOMI | conj |
| 39 | IN | in | ADP | _ | 42 SKULL | case |
| 40 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 SKULL | det |
| 41 | BUFFALO | BUFFALO | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 SKULL | compound |
| 42 | SKULL | SKULL | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 SHOOTING | nmod |
| 43 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 TOAD | det |
| 44 | TOAD | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 SKULL | appos |
| 45 | AND | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 BOY | cc |
| 46 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 BOY | det |
| 47 | BOY | BOY | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 TOAD | conj |
| 48 | IYA | IYA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 BOY | flat |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 EATER | punct |
| 50 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 EATER | det |
| 51 | CAMP | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 EATER | compound |
| 52 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 51 CAMP | punct |
| 53 | EATER | eater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 TOAD | appos |
| 54 | MANSTIN | MANSTIN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 EATER | appos |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 RABBIT | punct |
| 56 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 RABBIT | det |
| 57 | RABBIT | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 EATER | conj |
| 58 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 WARLIKE | det |
| 59 | WARLIKE | WARLIKE | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 EATER | nmod |
| 60 | SEVEN | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 59 WARLIKE | flat |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | the RED EAGLE IKTOMI and the TURTLE DANCE | a BUFFALO SKULL | nom shooting «act transitive»: of=patient in=place |
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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