Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 11
The peacock then spoke to Iktomi: “I have a magic power.
Who acts: peacock · What happens: speak, have · To what, where: Iktomi, magic power · 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 (peacock), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 peacock | det |
| 2 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 spoke | advmod |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Iktomi | case |
| 6 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 power | det |
| 12 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 power | compound |
| 13 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the peacock | Iktomi | then | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to iktomi=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | the peacock = peacock | a magic power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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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