Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 71

“There!” he exclaimed, “I see you, my friend, sitting with your ankles wound around my little pot of fish!

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: exclaim, see, sit · To what, where: friend, you, little pot · 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 (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	_	6 exclaimed	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 exclaimed	expl
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 There	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 There	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 exclaimed	nsubj
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 see	nsubj
10	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 exclaimed	conj
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 see	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 friend	punct
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 friend	nmod:poss
14	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 exclaimed	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sitting	punct
16	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 exclaimed	advcl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 ankles	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 ankles	nmod:poss
19	ankles	ankle	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sitting	obl
20	wound	wound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sitting	xcomp
21	around	around	ADP	_	24 pot	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 pot	nmod:poss
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pot	amod
24	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sitting	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 fish	case
26	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pot	nmod
27	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	exclaim speech: express	past	Iktomi	my friend	there		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	see in a quote	present	Iktomi	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
3	sit in a quote	gerund	Iktomi not said here		my little pot of fish	with your ankles; wound property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around pot=Location

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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