Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 75
No more danced those black spots on its surface, for they were the toes of old Iktomi.
Who acts: spots · 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 (spots), 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 | No | no | ADV | _ | 3 danced | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 danced | advmod |
| 3 | danced | danced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 spots | det |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 spots | amod |
| 6 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 danced | nsubj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 surface | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 surface | nmod:poss |
| 9 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spots | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 toes | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 toes | case |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 toes | nsubj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 toes | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 toes | det |
| 15 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 danced | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Iktomi | case |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Iktomi | amod |
| 18 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 toes | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | spots = spot | for the toes; of old Iktomi | 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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