Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 61
“I will build first a round straw house, for I never sing my songs in the open air,” said he.
Who acts: IKTOMI, my · What happens: build, not sing, say, sing · To what, where: round straw house, songs, open air · 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 (IKTOMI, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg338:59): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 build | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 build | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 build | aux |
| 4 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 said | ccomp |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 build | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 7 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 house | amod |
| 8 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | compound |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 build | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sing | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 sing | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 sing | nsubj |
| 13 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 sing | advmod |
| 14 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 build | advcl |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 songs | nmod:poss |
| 16 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sing | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 air | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 air | det |
| 19 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 air | amod |
| 20 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sing | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 build | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 build | punct |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 said | nsubj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build in a quote | future | IKTOMI | a round straw house | first property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Product | |||
| 2 | not sing speech: express in a quote | present | IKTOMI | my songs | the open air | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | IKTOMI | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sing in a quote | my | nom song «communication intransitive»: 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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