Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 12
My touch will change you in a moment into the most beautiful peacock if you can keep one condition.”
Who acts: touch, you, My · What happens: change, keep, touch · To what, where: you, beautiful peacock, one condition
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 (touch, you, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 touch | nmod:poss |
| 2 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 change | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 change | aux |
| 4 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 change | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 moment | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 moment | det |
| 8 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 change | obl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 peacock | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 peacock | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 beautiful | advmod |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 peacock | amod |
| 13 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 change | obl |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 keep | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 keep | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 keep | aux |
| 17 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 change | advcl |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 condition | nummod |
| 19 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keep | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 change | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 change | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | future | My touch | you | moment | into the beautiful peacock result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent you=Patient into peacock=Result | ||
| 2 | keep a condition, not said to happen | can | you | one condition | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Theme | ||||
| 3 | touch | My | nom touch «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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