Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 63
His woodpile was not yet kindled.
What happens: not kindle · To what, where: woodpile
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: 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 woodpile | nmod:poss |
| 2 | woodpile | woodpile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kindled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kindled | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 kindled | advmod |
| 5 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 6 kindled | advmod |
| 6 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kindled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not kindle | past · passive | Iktomi's woodpile | yet | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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