Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 31
We shall not run any race together,” answered the hungry muskrat.
Who acts: We · What happens: not run, answer · To what, where: race, hungry muskrat · 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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 run | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 run | advmod |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 race | det |
| 6 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 run | obj |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 run | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 run | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 muskrat | det |
| 12 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 muskrat | amod |
| 13 | muskrat | muskrat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not run | shall | We | any race | together property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent race=Theme clause=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | the hungry muskrat | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent muskrat=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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