Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 74
He who dares to open his eyes, forever red eyes shall have.”
Who acts: IKTOMI, red eyes · What happens: dare, open, have · 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 (IKTOMI, red eyes), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 dares | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 dares | nsubj |
| 3 | dares | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 open | mark |
| 5 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dares | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 open | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 9 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 13 have | advmod |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 eyes | amod |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 have | nsubj |
| 12 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 open | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dares | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dares | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dare | present | IKTOMI | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | open | to-infinitive | IKTOMI not said here | IKTOMI's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | shall | red eyes | forever property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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