Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 4
Patkasa had hunted all the morning without so much as spying an ordinary blackbird.
Who acts: Patkasa · What happens: hunt, spy · To what, where: ordinary blackbird
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.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg338:855): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Patkasa | Patkasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hunted | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hunted | aux |
| 3 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 morning | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 morning | det |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hunted | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 11 spying | mark |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 spying | advmod |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 so | fixed |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 so | fixed |
| 11 | spying | spy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 hunted | advcl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 blackbird | det |
| 13 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 blackbird | amod |
| 14 | blackbird | blackbird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spying | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past · perfect | Patkasa | morning | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | spy | gerund | Patkasa not said here | a ordinary blackbird | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blackbird=Stimulus |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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