Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 47
“My friends, I must not spoil your dance.
Who acts: friends, your · What happens: not spoil, dance · To what, where: dance
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 (friends, your), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 friends | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friends | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spoil | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 friends | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 spoil | nsubj |
| 6 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 spoil | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 spoil | advmod |
| 8 | spoil | spoil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 dance | nmod:poss |
| 10 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spoil | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 spoil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not spoil in a quote | must | My friends | your dance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dance in a quote | your | nom dance «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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