Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 26
If I win, I shall not need to share it with you.
Who acts: I · What happens: win, not need, share · To what, where: pot
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), 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 | _ | 3 win | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 win | nsubj |
| 3 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 need | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 win | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 need | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 need | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 need | advmod |
| 8 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 share | mark |
| 10 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 need | xcomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 share | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 share | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not need | shall | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | share not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | pot | with you | 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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