Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 71
Iktomi let go his hold.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: let, go, hold · To what, where: hold
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 | 2 let | nsubj |
| 2 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 let | xcomp |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hold | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 go | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | Iktomi | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | Iktomi not said here | Iktomi's hold | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hold=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hold | Iktomi | nom hold «act 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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