Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 10

“I beg of you make me into a bird with green and purple feathers like yours!” implored Iktomi, tired now of playing the brave in beaded buckskins.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: beg, make, implore, play, bead · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Fawn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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	_	3 beg	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 beg	nsubj
3	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 implored	parataxis
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	6 make	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 make	nsubj
6	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 beg	advcl
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 bird	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bird	det
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 make	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	15 feathers	case
12	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 feathers	amod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 purple	cc
14	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 green	conj
15	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	obl
16	like	like	ADP	_	17 yours	case
17	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 feathers	nmod
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 beg	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 beg	punct
20	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 tired	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 tired	punct
23	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 implored	ccomp
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 playing	advmod
25	of	of	SCONJ	_	26 playing	mark
26	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 implored	ccomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 brave	det
28	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 playing	parataxis
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 buckskins	case
30	beaded	bead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 buckskins	amod
31	buckskins	buckskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 brave	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 implored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request in a quote	present	I				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
2	make in a quote	present	you	me		into a bird; with green feathers like yours	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent i=Material into bird=Product
3	implore	past					vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	play	gerund			now		vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bead	participle					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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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