Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 58

“Now, I will cool Patkasa's fire.

Who acts: Iktomi, Patkasa · What happens: cool, fire · To what, where: fire

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 (Iktomi, Patkasa), 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	_	6 cool	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 cool	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 cool	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 cool	aux
6	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	Patkasa	Patkasa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 fire	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Patkasa	case
9	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cool	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cool	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool in a quote	future	Iktomi	Patkasa's fire			now		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fire=Patient
2	fire in a quote		Patkasa						nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent

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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