Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 55
There is his teepee, and the savory fire is in his front yard!”
Who acts: teepee, savory fire · What happens: be
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 (teepee, savory fire), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 teepee | nmod:poss |
| 4 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 yard | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 yard | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fire | det |
| 8 | savory | savory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fire | compound |
| 9 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 yard | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 yard | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 yard | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 yard | nmod:poss |
| 13 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 yard | amod |
| 14 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | parataxis |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 yard | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | Patkasa's teepee | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the savory fire | in Patkasa's front yard | 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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