Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 73
“Istokmus wacipo, tuwayatunwanpi kinhan ista nisasapi kta,” which is, “With eyes closed you must dance.
Who acts: you · What happens: close, be · To what, where: eyes
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wacipo | punct |
| 2 | Istokmus | Istokmus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wacipo | compound |
| 3 | wacipo | wacipo | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kinhan | punct |
| 5 | tuwayatunwanpi | tuwayatunwanpi | X | Foreign=Yes | 6 kinhan | nsubj |
| 6 | kinhan | kinhan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wacipo | conj |
| 7 | ista | ista | X | Foreign=Yes | 9 kta | amod |
| 8 | nisasapi | nisasapi | X | Foreign=Yes | 7 ista | flat:foreign |
| 9 | kta | kta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kinhan | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wacipo | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 wacipo | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 dance | obj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 dance | cop |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dance | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 dance | punct |
| 16 | With | with | ADP | _ | 17 eyes | case |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 dance | obl |
| 18 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 eyes | acl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 dance | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 dance | aux |
| 21 | dance | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wacipo | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wacipo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close in a quote | participle | eyes not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | must · present | you | with eyes; dance property | 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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