Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 131

Won't you mark my face with brown, brown spots just like yours?” asked Iktomi, always eager to be like other people.

Who acts: you · What happens: not mark, ask, be · To what, where: face, Iktomi · 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 (you), 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	Wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 mark	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 mark	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 mark	nsubj
4	mark	mark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 asked	ccomp
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 face	nmod:poss
6	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mark	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 spots	case
8	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 spots	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 brown	punct
10	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 spots	amod
11	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 mark	obl
12	just	just	ADV	_	14 yours	advmod
13	like	like	ADP	_	14 yours	case
14	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 mark	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mark	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 mark	punct
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 asked	iobj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 eager	punct
20	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	21 eager	advmod
21	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 asked	ccomp
22	to	to	PART	_	26 people	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 people	cop
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 people	case
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 people	amod
26	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 eager	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not mark	future	you	my face		with brown brown spots; like yours	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with spot=Theme
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	past			Iktomi		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent iktomi=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	to-infinitive				like other people	tree rules

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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