Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 66

He swims faster than I could ever run!

Who acts: man, I · What happens: swim, run

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 (man, I), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swims	nsubj
2	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 swims	advmod
4	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 run	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 run	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 run	aux
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 run	advmod
8	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 faster	advcl
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 swims	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present	man					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	could	I				ever		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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