Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 136
He says he has a duck feast to be eaten!
Who acts: fellow · What happens: say, have, eat · To what, where: duck feast · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (fellow), 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 | 2 says | nsubj |
| 2 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 says | ccomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 feast | det |
| 6 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feast | compound |
| 7 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 eaten | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 eaten | aux:pass |
| 10 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 feast | acl |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | fellow | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | have | present | fellow | a duck feast | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive · passive | fellow not said here | a duck feast not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» |
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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