Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 8
In truth, his paint and deerskins are the best part of him--if ever dress is part of man or fairy.
Who acts: paint, dress · What happens: be · To what, where: best part, truth, part
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 (paint, dress), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 truth | case |
| 2 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 part | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 truth | punct |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 paint | nmod:poss |
| 5 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 part | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 deerskins | cc |
| 7 | deerskins | deerskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 paint | conj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 part | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 part | det |
| 10 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 part | amod |
| 11 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 part | nmod |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 part | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 part | mark |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 dress | advmod |
| 17 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 part | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 part | cop |
| 19 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 part | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 man | case |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 part | nmod |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 fairy | cc |
| 23 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 man | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 part | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | braid's paint and deerskins | the best part and part | truth | of braid | tree rules | ||
| 2 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | dress | part | of man or fairy | 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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