Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 20
He had seen the prairie put on a snow-white blanket and then change it for a bright green robe more than a thousand times.
Who acts: Inyan · What happens: see, put, change · To what, where: prairie, white blanket
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 (Inyan), 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 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | aux |
| 3 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 prairie | det |
| 5 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seen | obj |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 prairie | acl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 blanket | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 blanket | det |
| 9 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 white | obl |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 snow | punct |
| 11 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 blanket | amod |
| 12 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 change | cc |
| 14 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 change | advmod |
| 15 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seen | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 change | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 robe | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 robe | det |
| 19 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 robe | amod |
| 20 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 robe | amod |
| 21 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 change | obl |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 25 thousand | advmod |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 more | fixed |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 thousand | det |
| 25 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 times | nummod |
| 26 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 change | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | Inyan | the prairie | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prairie=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | put | participle | the prairie not said here | a white blanket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on blanket=Destination | ||||
| 3 | change | infinitive | Inyan not said here | prairie | then; time | for a bright green robe | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme for robe=Co-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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