Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 12
“How, Iktomi!” answered Patkasa, still stooping over the deer.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: answer, stoop · To what, where: Patkasa, deer
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Turtle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iktomi), 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 answered | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 answered | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Iktomi | punct |
| 4 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Iktomi | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Iktomi | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Patkasa | Patkasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stooping | punct |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 stooping | advmod |
| 11 | stooping | stoop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 answered | advcl |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 deer | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 deer | det |
| 14 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stooping | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | Iktomi | Patkasa | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent patkasa=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | stoop | gerund | Iktomi not said here | the deer | still | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over deer=Location |
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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