Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 7
Iktomi dresses like a real Dakota brave.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: dress
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), 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 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dresses | nsubj |
| 2 | dresses | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 Dakota | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Dakota | det |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Dakota | amod |
| 6 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 dresses | obl |
| 7 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dresses | advcl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dresses | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress | present | Iktomi | like a real Dakota | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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