Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 73
On the very same branch was a bright burning fire over which Patkasa broiled the venison.
Who acts: Patkasa · What happens: burn, be, broil · To what, where: bright burning fire, same branch, 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: who acts (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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 branch | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 branch | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 same | advmod |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 branch | amod |
| 5 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fire | obl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fire | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 fire | det |
| 8 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 fire | amod |
| 9 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 fire | amod |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 broiled | obl |
| 13 | Patkasa | Patkasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 broiled | nsubj |
| 14 | broiled | broil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fire | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 venison | det |
| 16 | venison | venison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 broiled | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | a bright burning fire | the same branch | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | broil | past | Patkasa | the venison | a bright burning fire | 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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