Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 46
“The old great-grandfather does not feel the cold as I do.
Who acts: old great grandfather, answer · What happens: not feel, do · To what, where: cold
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 (old great grandfather, answer), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 feel | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 grandfather | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grandfather | amod |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grandfather | amod |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 great | punct |
| 6 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feel | nsubj |
| 7 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 feel | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 feel | advmod |
| 9 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cold | det |
| 11 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feel | obj |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 feel | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel in a quote | present · do-support | the old great grandfather | the cold | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | the answer = answer | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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