Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 35
“The game is mine!” laughed he, patting the sullen Patkasa on the back.
Who acts: game · What happens: be, laugh, pat · To what, where: Patkasa, Iktomi, sullen Patkasa · 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 (game), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 laughed | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mine | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mine | cop |
| 5 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 laughed | parataxis |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 mine | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 mine | punct |
| 8 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 laughed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 patting | punct |
| 11 | patting | pat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 laughed | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Patkasa | det |
| 13 | sullen | sullen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Patkasa | amod |
| 14 | Patkasa | Patkasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 patting | obj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 back | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 back | det |
| 17 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 patting | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the game | Patkasa | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | laugh | past | Iktomi | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pat | gerund | the sullen Patkasa | on the back | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent patkasa=Experiencer on back=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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