Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 29
“My friend Ikto, I cannot run a race with you!
Who acts: friend · What happens: not run · To what, where: race
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), 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 | _ | 9 run | 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 | 9 run | nsubj |
| 4 | Ikto | Ikto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 friend | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 run | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 run | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 run | advmod |
| 9 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 race | det |
| 11 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 run | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 run | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not run in a quote | can | My friend | a race | with you | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Product with you=Material |
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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