Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 38
However, on this occasion, he did not answer “Yes, my friend.”
Who acts: Patkasa · What happens: not answer · To what, where: occasion
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 (Patkasa), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 10 answer | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 occasion | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 occasion | det |
| 5 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answer | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 occasion | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 answer | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 answer | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 answer | advmod |
| 10 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Yes | punct |
| 12 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 10 answer | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 friend | punct |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 friend | nmod:poss |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Yes | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 answer | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not answer speech: assert | past · do-support | Patkasa | this occasion | however property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent yes=Eventuality |
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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