Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 99
He left the little straw hut for the rains and winds to pull down.
Who acts: Homeward · What happens: leave, pull down · To what, where: little straw hut
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 (Homeward), 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 | 2 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hut | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hut | amod |
| 5 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hut | compound |
| 6 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 left | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 rains | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rains | det |
| 9 | rains | rain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 left | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 winds | cc |
| 11 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rains | conj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 pull | mark |
| 13 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 left | advcl |
| 14 | down | down | ADP | _ | 13 pull | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | Homeward | the little straw hut | for the rains and winds | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hut=Theme for rain=Recipient | |||
| 2 | pull down | to-infinitive | Homeward not said here | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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