Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 48

I wish I had not given it to him.

Who acts: I · What happens: wish, not give · To what, where: cold, grandfather · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wish	nsubj
2	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 given	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 given	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 given	advmod
6	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 wish	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 given	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 given	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I						vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	not give	past · perfect	I	cold	grandfather				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Recipient

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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