Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 25

Just before the run and leap Iktomi put in: “Let the winner have the deer to eat!”

Who acts: run, Iktomi, winner · What happens: leap, put in, let, have, eat · To what, where: deer · 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 (run, Iktomi, winner), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	4 run	advmod
2	before	before	ADP	_	4 run	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 run	det
4	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 leap	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 leap	cc
6	leap	leap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 put	nsubj
8	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 leap	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	8 put	compound:prt
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 Let	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 Let	punct
12	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 leap	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 winner	det
14	winner	winner	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	nsubj
15	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 Let	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 deer	det
17	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 have	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 eat	mark
19	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 deer	acl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 Let	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	leap	infinitive	the run		tree rules
2	put in	past	Iktomi		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	let in a quote	infinitive			tree rules
4	have in a quote	present	the winner	the deer	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Patient
5	eat in a quote	to-infinitive	the winner not said here	the deer not said here	vn eat-39.1-1 «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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