Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 96

For the warning words of the magic minor strain had proven true.

What happens: prove

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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	4 words	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 words	det
3	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 words	compound
4	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 proven	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 strain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 strain	det
7	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 strain	amod
8	minor	minor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 strain	amod
9	strain	strain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 proven	obl
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 proven	aux
11	proven	prove	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
12	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 proven	xcomp
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 proven	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prove	past · perfect						for the warning words; of the magic minor strain; true property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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