Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 117
A new desire dried them quickly away.
Who acts: new desire · What happens: dry · To what, where: tears
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 (new desire), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 desire | det |
| 2 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 desire | amod |
| 3 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dried | nsubj |
| 4 | dried | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dried | obj |
| 6 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 7 away | advmod |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 dried | advmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dry | past | a new desire | tears = tear | away property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result |
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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