Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 37
That will slacken my usual speed; and the race will be a fair one.”
Who acts: That, race · What happens: slacken, be · To what, where: usual speed, fair one
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 (That, race), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 slacken | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 slacken | aux |
| 3 | slacken | slacken | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 speed | nmod:poss |
| 5 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 speed | amod |
| 6 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slacken | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 one | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 one | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 race | det |
| 10 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 one | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 one | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 one | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 one | det |
| 14 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 one | amod |
| 15 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slacken | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slacken | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 slacken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slacken | future | That | my usual speed | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent speed=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | future | the race | a fair one | 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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