Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 64

“Oh, if only I had shared my food like a real Dakota, I would not have lost it all!

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: share, not lose · To what, where: food

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 (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	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 lost	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	4 if	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 shared	mark
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 shared	advmod
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 shared	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shared	aux
8	shared	share	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 lost	advcl
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 food	nmod:poss
10	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shared	obj
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 Dakota	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 Dakota	det
13	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Dakota	amod
14	Dakota	Dakota	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 shared	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shared	punct
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 lost	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 lost	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 lost	advmod
19	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 lost	aux
20	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lost	obj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 it	det
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	share a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	Iktomi	my food				like a real Dakota	tree rules
2	not lose in a quote	would · perfect	Iktomi	food					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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