Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 75
If only I had eaten the venison before going for my blanket!”
Who acts: I · What happens: eat, go · To what, where: venison
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 (I), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 eaten | mark |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 eaten | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 eaten | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eaten | aux |
| 5 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 venison | det |
| 7 | venison | venison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eaten | obj |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 going | mark |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 eaten | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 blanket | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 12 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 eaten | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 eaten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect | I | the venison | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venison=Patient | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | I not said here | for my blanket | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for blanket=Beneficiary |
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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