Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 121

Fawn, dear little fawn, can you tell me how those brown spots were made on your face?”

Who acts: Fawn · What happens: tell, make · To what, where: me, brown spots, face · 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 (Fawn), 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	Fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tell	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fawn	punct
3	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fawn	amod
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fawn	amod
5	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fawn	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Fawn	punct
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 tell	aux
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 tell	nsubj
9	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 tell	iobj
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 made	advmod
12	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 spots	det
13	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 spots	amod
14	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 made	nsubj:pass
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 made	aux:pass
16	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 tell	ccomp
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 face	case
18	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 face	nmod:poss
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 made	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	Fawn and dear little fawn		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	make	past · passive		that brown spots		your face			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

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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