Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 58
This was very wrong, yet Iktomi did it, for his wit was not wisdom.
Who acts: This, Iktomi, wit · What happens: be, do, not be · To what, where: hillside
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 (This, Iktomi, wit), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 wrong | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrong | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 wrong | advmod |
| 4 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 did | punct |
| 6 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 8 did | cc |
| 7 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 did | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wrong | advcl |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 did | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wisdom | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 wisdom | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 wit | nmod:poss |
| 13 | wit | wit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wisdom | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wisdom | cop |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 wisdom | advmod |
| 16 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 did | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wrong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | Iktomi | hillside | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | Iktomi's wit | for wisdom | tree rules |
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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