Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 120
What beautiful brown spots on your face!
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: 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spots | amod |
| 3 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spots | amod |
| 4 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 face | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 face | nmod:poss |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spots | nmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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