Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 17
Let us see who can jump over the deer without touching a hair on his hide,” suggested Iktomi.
Who acts: you, us · What happens: let, see, jump, touch, suggest · To what, where: us, deer, hair, Iktomi · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 jump | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 jump | aux |
| 6 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 see | ccomp |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 deer | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 deer | det |
| 9 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 jump | obl |
| 10 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 11 touching | mark |
| 11 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 jump | advcl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hair | det |
| 13 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 touching | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 hide | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hide | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hide | hide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 touching | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 19 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | advcl |
| 20 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 suggested | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | us not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | jump | can | the deer | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over deer=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | touch | gerund | a hair | on friend's hide | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hair=Experiencer on hide=Theme | ||||
| 5 | suggest speech: suggest in a quote | past | you not said here | Iktomi | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent iktomi=Topic |
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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