Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 25
“My friend, let us run a race to see who shall win this pot of fish.
Who acts: friend, us · What happens: let, run, see, win · To what, where: us, race, pot · 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 (friend, us), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 let | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 friend | punct |
| 5 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 let | obj |
| 7 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 let | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 race | det |
| 9 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 run | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 see | mark |
| 11 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 run | advcl |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 win | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 win | aux |
| 14 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 see | ccomp |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 pot | det |
| 16 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 win | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 fish | case |
| 18 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pot | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | My friend | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | run in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | a race | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme race=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | us not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | win in a quote | shall | this pot of fish | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Eventuality |
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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