Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 42
Old fellow, pray tell us what you carry in your blanket.
Who acts: Old fellow, you · What happens: tell, carry · To what, where: us, blanket · 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 (Old fellow, you), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fellow | amod |
| 2 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 fellow | punct |
| 4 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 carry | obj |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 carry | nsubj |
| 9 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 blanket | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 12 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carry | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present | Old fellow | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | carry | present | you | your blanket | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent what=Value in blanket=Location |
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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