Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 16
I wondered if among the wild rice some spirit voice was talking.
Who acts: I, spirit voice · What happens: wonder, talk
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Muskrat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, spirit voice), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wondered | nsubj |
| 2 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 talking | mark |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 rice | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rice | det |
| 6 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rice | amod |
| 7 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 talking | obl |
| 8 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 voice | det |
| 9 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 voice | compound |
| 10 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 talking | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 talking | aux |
| 12 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 wondered | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | I | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | talk a condition, not said to happen | past · progressive | some spirit voice | among the wild rice | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=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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