Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 19

On his lips hung a ready “Yes, my friend,” when Iktomi would ask, “My friend, will you sit down beside me and share my food?”

Who acts: Iktomi, friend · What happens: hang, ask, sit down, share · To what, where: ready friend, lips, food · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Iktomi, friend), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 lips	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 lips	nmod:poss
3	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hung	obl
4	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 friend	det
6	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 friend	amod
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 friend	punct
8	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	11 friend	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 friend	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 friend	nmod:poss
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hung	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 hung	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 ask	advmod
15	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 ask	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 ask	aux
17	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hung	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ask	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 sit	punct
20	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 friend	nmod:poss
21	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sit	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 friend	punct
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 sit	aux
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 sit	nsubj
25	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 ask	conj
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 sit	compound:prt
27	beside	beside	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 sit	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 share	cc
30	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 sit	conj
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 food	nmod:poss
32	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 share	obj
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hung	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hang	past		my ready friend	friend's lips		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent friend=Theme on lip=Destination
2	ask speech: ask	would	Iktomi				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit down in a quote	future	My friend			beside Iktomi	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside i=Location
4	share in a quote	infinitive	My friend not said here	my food			tree rules

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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