Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 130
“Now, fawn, my friend, will you do the same for me?
Who acts: fawn · What happens: do · To what, where: same
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 do | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 do | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friend | nmod:poss |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fawn | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fawn | punct |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 same | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 do | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 do | obl |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | future | fawn and my friend | the same | now | for the fawn = fawn | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |
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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