Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 63
“Another day, my friend, do not take too much for granted.
Who acts: you · What happens: not take, grant · To what, where: much
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), 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 | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 2 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 take | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 friend | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friend | nmod:poss |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 take | advmod |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 take | obj |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 granted | mark |
| 14 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 take | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not take in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | much | day | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Theme | |||
| 2 | grant in a quote | participle | you not said here | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
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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