Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 15
“Yes, my friend, you are a skillful fellow.
Who acts: you · What happens: be · To what, where: skillful fellow
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 (you), 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 | _ | 11 fellow | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 11 fellow | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Yes | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 fellow | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 fellow | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fellow | det |
| 10 | skillful | skillful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fellow | amod |
| 11 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fellow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | you | a skillful fellow | tree rules |
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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