Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 16
And so long as he is a naughty fairy, he cannot find a single friend.
Who acts: IKTOMI · What happens: be, not find · To what, where: naughty fairy, single friend
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 find | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 long | advmod |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 find | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 fairy | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fairy | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fairy | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fairy | det |
| 8 | naughty | naughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fairy | amod |
| 9 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fairy | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 find | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 find | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 find | advmod |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 friend | det |
| 16 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 friend | amod |
| 17 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | IKTOMI | a naughty fairy | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not find | can | IKTOMI | a single friend | long property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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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