Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 19
Those who come to admire his handsome beaded jacket and long fringed leggins soon go away sick and tired of his vain, vain words and heartless laughter.
Who acts: handsome, long fringed leggins, IKTOMI · What happens: come, admire, bead, fringe, go away, word · To what, where: jacket
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 (handsome, long fringed leggins, 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 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 come | nsubj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Those | acl:relcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 admire | mark |
| 5 | admire | admire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 beaded | nmod:poss |
| 7 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beaded | nsubj |
| 8 | beaded | bead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 admire | ccomp |
| 9 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 beaded | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 go | cc |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 leggins | amod |
| 12 | fringed | fringe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 leggins | amod |
| 13 | leggins | leggin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 go | nsubj |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 go | advmod |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 beaded | conj |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 go | xcomp |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 tired | cc |
| 19 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sick | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 words | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 words | nmod:poss |
| 22 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 words | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 vain | punct |
| 24 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 words | amod |
| 25 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 tired | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 laughter | cc |
| 27 | heartless | heartless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 laughter | amod |
| 28 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 words | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Those | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | admire | to-infinitive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | bead | past | handsome | jacket | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jacket=Product | ||||
| 4 | fringe | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | go away | present | long fringed leggins | away, sick, soon property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | word | IKTOMI | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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