Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 50

I shall take you to the turtle's dwelling.”

Who acts: I · What happens: take · To what, where: you

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 take	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 dwelling	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 turtle	det
7	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dwelling	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 turtle	case
9	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	shall	I		you			to the turtle's dwelling	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination

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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