Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 16

Now let us have a little contest.

Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, have · To what, where: us, little contest

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, us), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 let	advmod
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 contest	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 contest	amod
7	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us			now		tree rules
2	have	infinitive	us not said here	a little contest					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contest=Patient

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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