Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 34
This is how it first became a saying among the plains people.
Who acts: This, birdie · What happens: be, become · To what, where: saying
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 (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 how | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 how | cop |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 became | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 became | nsubj |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 became | advmod |
| 6 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 saying | det |
| 8 | saying | saying | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 became | xcomp |
| 9 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 people | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 plains | det |
| 11 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 people | compound |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 became | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | This | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | become | past | birdie | a saying | among plains people; first property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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