Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 111
“Arrow, my friend, change me once more!” begged Iktomi.
Who acts: Arrow, Iktomi · What happens: change, beg · To what, where: Iktomi · 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 (Arrow, Iktomi), 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 | _ | 7 change | punct |
| 2 | Arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 change | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 friend | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Arrow | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Arrow | punct |
| 7 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 begged | ccomp |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 change | obj |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 change | advmod |
| 11 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 change | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 change | punct |
| 13 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 begged | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change in a quote | infinitive | Arrow and my friend | Iktomi | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Iktomi | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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