Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 30
I am not a swift runner, and you are nimble as a deer.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: not be, be · To what, where: swift runner
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, you), 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 | 6 runner | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 runner | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 runner | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 runner | det |
| 5 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 runner | amod |
| 6 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 nimble | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 nimble | cc |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 nimble | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 nimble | cop |
| 11 | nimble | nimble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 runner | conj |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 deer | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 deer | det |
| 14 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 nimble | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 runner | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | I | a swift runner | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | you | as a deer; nimble property | 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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