Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 14

Often his own conceit leads him hard against the common sense of simpler people.

Who acts: own conceit · What happens: lead, sense · To what, where: IKTOMI, common sense, simpler people

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 (own conceit), 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	Often	often	ADV	_	5 leads	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 conceit	nmod:poss
3	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 conceit	amod
4	conceit	conceit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leads	nsubj
5	leads	lead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 leads	obj
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 leads	advmod
8	against	against	ADP	_	11 sense	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sense	det
10	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sense	amod
11	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leads	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 people	case
13	simpler	simple	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 people	amod
14	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sense	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 leads	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lead	present	IKTOMI's own conceit	IKTOMI		the common sense of simpler people		hard, often property	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme against sense=Destination
2	sense			simpler people					nom sense «cognition 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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