Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 20
I say you are a skillful fellow who finds nothing hard to do.”
Who acts: I, you, skillful fellow, nothing · What happens: say, be, find, do · To what, where: skillful fellow, nothing · 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 (I, you, skillful fellow, nothing), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 say | nsubj |
| 2 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 fellow | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fellow | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fellow | det |
| 6 | skillful | skillful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fellow | amod |
| 7 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 say | ccomp |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 finds | nsubj |
| 9 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fellow | acl:relcl |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 9 finds | obj |
| 11 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 finds | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 do | mark |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hard | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 finds | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 fellow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | you | a skillful fellow | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find | present | a skillful fellow | nothing | hard property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | |||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | nothing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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