Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 36

“My friend, watch the deer while I go to bring my children,” said Iktomi, darting lightly through the tall grass.

Who acts: friend, Iktomi · What happens: watch, go, bring, say, dart · To what, where: deer, children, tall grass · 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 (friend, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 watch	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 friend	nmod:poss
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watch	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 friend	punct
5	watch	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 deer	det
7	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watch	obj
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 go	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
10	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 watch	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 bring	mark
12	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 go	xcomp
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 children	nmod:poss
14	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bring	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 watch	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 darting	punct
20	darting	dart	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 said	advcl
21	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	20 darting	advmod
22	through	through	ADP	_	25 grass	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 grass	det
24	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 grass	amod
25	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 darting	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	watch in a quote	infinitive	My friend	the deer				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deer=Theme
2	go in a quote	present	Iktomi					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	bring in a quote	to-infinitive	Iktomi not said here		my children			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument child=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past	Iktomi					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	dart	gerund	Iktomi not said here			the tall grass	lightly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through grass=Trajectory

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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