Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 64
Make sure the enemy is stone dead before you make a fire!”
Who acts: you, enemy · What happens: make, be · To what, where: sure stone, fire
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, enemy), 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 | Make | make | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stone | amod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 enemy | det |
| 4 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stone | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stone | cop |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Make | obj |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stone | amod |
| 8 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 make | nsubj |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Make | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 fire | det |
| 12 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | imperative | you not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the enemy | sure stone | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | present | you | a fire | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |
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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