Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 48
Oh, you would not care to see if you only knew what is in my blanket.
Who acts: you · What happens: not care, see, know, be · To what, where: 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 (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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 care | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 care | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 care | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 care | advmod |
| 6 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 care | xcomp |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 knew | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 11 | only | only | ADV | _ | 12 knew | advmod |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 see | ccomp |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 blanket | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 blanket | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 blanket | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 17 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knew | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | would | you | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | know a condition, not said to happen | past | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is | present | my blanket | tree rules |
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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