Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 44
Old Iktomi led his young Iktomi brood to the place where he had left the turtle, but it was vacant.
Who acts: Old Iktomi, Iktomi, turtle · What happens: lead, leave, be · To what, where: young Iktomi brood, place, turtle
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 (Old Iktomi, Iktomi, turtle), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Iktomi | amod |
| 2 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 led | nsubj |
| 3 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brood | nmod:poss |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 brood | amod |
| 6 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 brood | compound |
| 7 | brood | brood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 led | obl |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 left | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 left | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 left | aux |
| 14 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 place | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 turtle | det |
| 16 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 left | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 vacant | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 vacant | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 vacant | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 vacant | cop |
| 21 | vacant | vacant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 led | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | Old Iktomi | Iktomi's young Iktomi brood | the place | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent brood=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | Iktomi | the turtle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turtle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | turtle | vacant property | tree rules |
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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