Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 33
Did you never see a birdie blink a blue wink?
Who acts: you, birdie · What happens: not see, blink · To what, where: blue wink · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, birdie), 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 see | advmod |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 birdie | det |
| 6 | birdie | birdie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blink | nsubj |
| 7 | blink | blink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 see | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wink | det |
| 9 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wink | amod |
| 10 | wink | wink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blink | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | blink | infinitive | a birdie | a blue wink | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wink=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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