Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 116
Iktomi's tears were like a spring shower.
Who acts: tears · What happens: be
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 (tears), 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 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tears | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Iktomi | case |
| 3 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shower | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 shower | cop |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 shower | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 shower | det |
| 7 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shower | compound |
| 8 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 shower | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Iktomi's tears | like a spring shower | tree rules |
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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