Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 50
I must not show you what I carry on my back,” answered Iktomi, nudging his own sides with his elbows.
Who acts: I · What happens: not show, carry, answer, nudge · To what, where: you, back, Iktomi, own sides · 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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 show | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 show | advmod |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 show | iobj |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 carry | nsubj |
| 8 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 back | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 back | nmod:poss |
| 11 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carry | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 carry | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 carry | punct |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | parataxis |
| 15 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 nudging | punct |
| 17 | nudging | nudge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 answered | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sides | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sides | amod |
| 20 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 nudging | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 elbows | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 elbows | nmod:poss |
| 23 | elbows | elbow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 nudging | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not show | must | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | carry | present | I | my back | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | Iktomi | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent iktomi=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | nudge in a quote | gerund | IKTOMI's own sides | with IKTOMI's elbows | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent side=Experiencer with elbow=Instrument |
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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