Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 64
His pointed stakes were still bare as he had left them.
Who acts: pointed stakes, Iktomi · What happens: be, leave, stake · To what, where: stakes
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 (pointed stakes, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 stakes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stakes | amod |
| 3 | stakes | stake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 bare | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bare | cop |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 bare | advmod |
| 6 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 left | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 left | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | aux |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 bare | advcl |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 left | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Iktomi's pointed stakes | still | bare property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect | Iktomi | stakes = stake | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stake | Iktomi | nom stake «possession transitive»: poss=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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