Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 54
“There is Patkasa broiling venison!
What happens: broil · To what, where: venison
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 broiling | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 broiling | aux |
| 4 | Patkasa | Patkasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 5 | broiling | broil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | venison | venison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 broiling | obj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 broiling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | broil in a quote | present · progressive | venison | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent venison=Patient |
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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