Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 8

Not knowing when the next meal would be, he meant to eat enough now to last some time.

Who acts: meal, next meal · What happens: not know, be, mean, eat, last · 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 (meal, next meal), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 knowing	advmod
2	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 meant	advcl
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 be	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 meal	det
5	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 meal	amod
6	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 be	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 be	aux
8	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 knowing	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 knowing	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 meant	nsubj
11	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	PART	_	13 eat	mark
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 meant	xcomp
14	enough	enough	ADV	_	13 eat	advmod
15	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 eat	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 last	mark
17	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 eat	advcl
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 last	obl:unmarked
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 meant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	not know	gerund	meal not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	be	would	the next meal			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mean	past	meal			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	meal not said here	now	enough property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	last	to-infinitive	meal not said here	time		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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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