Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 65
But where was the deer--the venison he had felt warm in his hands a moment ago?
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: be, feel · To what, where: deer, venison, hands
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 deer | cc |
| 2 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 deer | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 deer | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 deer | det |
| 5 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 venison | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 venison | det |
| 8 | venison | venison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deer | appos |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 felt | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 felt | aux |
| 11 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 venison | acl:relcl |
| 12 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 felt | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hands | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 hands | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 felt | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 moment | det |
| 17 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 11 felt | advmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 deer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the deer | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | feel | past · perfect | Iktomi | the venison not said here | Iktomi's hands | ago, warm property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent venison=Theme in hand=Location |
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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