Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 20
Thus Iktomi lives alone in a cone-shaped wigwam upon the plain.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: live, shape · To what, where: shaped wigwam
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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 lives | advmod |
| 2 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 lives | nsubj |
| 3 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 lives | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 wigwam | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wigwam | det |
| 7 | cone | cone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shaped | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 cone | punct |
| 9 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 wigwam | amod |
| 10 | wigwam | wigwam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lives | obl |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 plain | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 plain | det |
| 13 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lives | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Iktomi | a shaped wigwam | upon the plain; alone, thus property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wigwam=Location | |||
| 2 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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