Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 123

“When I was very, very small, my mother marked them on my face with a red hot fire.

Who acts: fawn, mother · What happens: be, mark · To what, where: spots, 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: who acts (fawn, mother), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 marked	punct
2	When	when	SCONJ	_	8 small	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 small	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 small	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	8 small	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 small	punct
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 small	advmod
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 marked	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 small	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 marked	nsubj
12	marked	mark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 marked	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 face	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 face	nmod:poss
16	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 marked	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	21 fire	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 fire	det
19	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fire	amod
20	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 fire	amod
21	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 marked	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 marked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	past	the fawn = fawn					small property	tree rules
2	mark in a quote	past	my mother	spots = spot		my face		with a red hot fire	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on face=Destination

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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