Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 17
The all-powerful Great Spirit, who makes the trees and grass, can hear the voice of those who pray in many varied ways.
Who acts: powerful Great Spirit · What happens: make, hear, pray · To what, where: trees, voice, many varied ways
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi's Blanket. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (powerful Great Spirit), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Spirit | det |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 Spirit | det |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 all | punct |
| 4 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Spirit | amod |
| 5 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Spirit | amod |
| 6 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 makes | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 makes | nsubj |
| 9 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Spirit | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 trees | det |
| 11 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 makes | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 grass | cc |
| 13 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trees | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hear | punct |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 hear | aux |
| 16 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 makes | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 voice | det |
| 18 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hear | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 those | case |
| 20 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 voice | nmod |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 pray | nsubj |
| 22 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 those | acl:relcl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 ways | case |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ways | amod |
| 25 | varied | varied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ways | amod |
| 26 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 pray | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Spirit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the powerful Great Spirit | the trees and grass | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Product | ||||
| 2 | hear | can | the powerful Great Spirit not said here | the voice of those | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | pray | present | many varied ways | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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