Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 13
He never dreams another lives so bright as he.
Who acts: IKTOMI · What happens: not dream · To what, where: lives
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Ducks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (IKTOMI), 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 | 3 dreams | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 dreams | advmod |
| 3 | dreams | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 lives | det |
| 5 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dreams | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 bright | advmod |
| 7 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dreams | xcomp |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 he | case |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 bright | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dreams | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not dream | present | IKTOMI | another lives | bright property | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Topic |
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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