Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 39
He realized that Iktomi's flattering tongue had made him foolish.
Who acts: Patkasa · What happens: realize, make · To what, where: flattering tongue · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 realized | nsubj |
| 2 | realized | realize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 made | mark |
| 4 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Iktomi | case |
| 6 | flattering | flattering | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tongue | amod |
| 7 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 realized | ccomp |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | obj |
| 11 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 made | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 realized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | realize | past | Patkasa | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect · passive | Iktomi's flattering tongue | foolish property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Product |
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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