Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 45

In honor of Chaske the chieftain gives this feast and dance!

Who acts: chieftain · What happens: give, honor · To what, where: feast, honor, Chaske

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iya, the Camp-eater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chieftain), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 honor	case
2	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gives	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Chaske	case
4	Chaske	Chaske	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 honor	nmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chieftain	det
6	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gives	nsubj
7	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 feast	det
9	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gives	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dance	cc
11	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 feast	conj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 gives	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	the chieftain	this feast and dance		honor of Chaske			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Theme
2	honor			Chaske					nom honor «communication transitive»: of=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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