Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 90
He cannot fight, for he cannot run.
Who acts: Iya · What happens: not fight, not run
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 (Iya), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fight | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 fight | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 fight | advmod |
| 4 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 run | punct |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 run | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 run | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 run | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 run | advmod |
| 10 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 fight | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fight | can | Iya | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not run | can | Iya | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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