Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 34

On these stakes he meant to roast the venison.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: mean, roast · To what, where: stakes, venison

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 (Iktomi), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 stakes	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 stakes	det
3	stakes	stake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 meant	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 meant	nsubj
5	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 roast	mark
7	roast	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 meant	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 venison	det
9	venison	venison	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roast	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	past	Iktomi			this stakes			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	roast not said to happen	to-infinitive	Iktomi not said here	the venison					vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent venison=Patient

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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