Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 132
I'm caught fast in the tree so that my duck feast is getting cold.
Who acts: duck feast · What happens: catch, get · To what, where: I, tree
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 (duck feast), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | aux:pass |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 caught | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obl |
| 8 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 getting | mark |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 so | fixed |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feast | nmod:poss |
| 11 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feast | compound |
| 12 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 getting | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 getting | aux |
| 14 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 caught | advcl |
| 15 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 getting | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | present · passive | I | the tree | fast property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | get | present · progressive | my duck feast | cold property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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