Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 34
Hardly was the last word spoken than Iktomi gave a leap high above the deer.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: be, speak, give · To what, where: last word, leap · 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 (Iktomi), 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 | Hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 5 word | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 word | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 word | det |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 word | amod |
| 5 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | spoken | speak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 word | acl |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 gave | mark |
| 8 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | nsubj |
| 9 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 spoken | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 leap | det |
| 11 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gave | obj |
| 12 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 gave | advmod |
| 13 | above | above | ADP | _ | 15 deer | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 deer | det |
| 15 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 high | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 word | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the last word | hardly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | participle | the last word not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | give | past | Iktomi | a leap | high property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leap=Theme |
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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