Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 78
The Great Spirit does not heed them ever.
Who acts: Great Spirit · What happens: not heed · To what, where: tears
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 (Great Spirit), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Spirit | det |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Spirit | amod |
| 3 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 heed | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 heed | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 heed | advmod |
| 6 | heed | heed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 heed | obj |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 heed | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 heed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not heed | present · do-support | the Great Spirit | tears = tear | ever | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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