Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 56
Nudging himself again, wily Iktomi said, “My friends, 't is only a pack of songs I carry in my blanket.”
Who acts: wily Iktomi, t · What happens: nudge, say, be, carry · To what, where: IKTOMI, pack, songs, 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 (wily Iktomi, t), 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 | Nudging | nudge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Nudging | obj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Nudging | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nudging | punct |
| 5 | wily | wily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Iktomi | amod |
| 6 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 friends | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 friends | punct |
| 10 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 friends | nmod:poss |
| 11 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pack | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 t | punct |
| 14 | t | t | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pack | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 pack | cop |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 pack | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 pack | det |
| 18 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 songs | case |
| 20 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 pack | nmod |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 carry | nsubj |
| 22 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 songs | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 blanket | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 25 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 carry | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 pack | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 pack | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nudge | gerund | wily Iktomi not said here | IKTOMI | again | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | wily Iktomi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | t | a pack | of songs | tree rules | |||
| 4 | carry in a quote | present | wily Iktomi = iktomi | songs not said here | my blanket | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent song=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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