Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 23
I'll carry him to my dwelling and have a roast for my evening meal.
Who acts: I · What happens: carry, have · To what, where: paw, dwelling, roast
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 carry | nsubj |
| 2 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 carry | aux |
| 3 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carry | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 dwelling | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carry | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 have | cc |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 carry | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 roast | det |
| 11 | roast | roast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 meal | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 meal | nmod:poss |
| 14 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 meal | compound |
| 15 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 roast | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | future | I | paw | my dwelling | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to dwelling=Destination | |||
| 2 | have | present | I not said here | a roast | for my evening meal | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roast=Patient |
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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