Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 43
The race is for the boiled fish in yonder kettle!” said Iktomi.
Who acts: race, Iktomi · What happens: boil, be, say · To what, where: kettle · 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 (race, Iktomi), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 race | det |
| 2 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fish | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fish | cop |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 fish | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fish | det |
| 6 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fish | amod |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 kettle | case |
| 9 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 10 kettle | advmod |
| 10 | kettle | kettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fish | nmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 fish | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 fish | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | the race | kettle | for the boiled fish | tree rules | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Iktomi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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