Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 51
Iktomi, in the warm sunshine, had no need of his blanket, and it had been very easy to part with a thing which he could not miss.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: have, be, not miss, need · To what, where: need, part, thing, 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 (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 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sunshine | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sunshine | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sunshine | det |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sunshine | amod |
| 6 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Iktomi | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Iktomi | punct |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 need | det |
| 10 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 blanket | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 13 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 need | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 easy | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 easy | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 easy | expl |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 easy | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 easy | cop |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 easy | advmod |
| 20 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 had | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 part | mark |
| 22 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 easy | xcomp |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 thing | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 thing | det |
| 25 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 part | nmod |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 miss | obj |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 miss | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 miss | aux |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 miss | advmod |
| 30 | miss | miss | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 thing | acl:relcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Iktomi | no need of Iktomi's blanket | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | part with a thing | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not miss | could | Iktomi | a thing | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | need | Iktomi's blanket | nom need «state transitive»: of=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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