Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 133
I can dig the ground and fill it with dry grass and sticks.
Who acts: I, dry grass · What happens: dig, fill, stick · To what, where: ground
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 (I, dry grass), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 dig | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 dig | aux |
| 3 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ground | det |
| 5 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dig | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fill | cc |
| 7 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dig | conj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fill | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 grass | case |
| 10 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grass | amod |
| 11 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fill | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sticks | cc |
| 13 | sticks | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 grass | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dig | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | can | I | the ground | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent ground=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fill | present | I not said here | ground | with dry grass | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with grass=Instrument | |||
| 3 | stick | present | dry grass not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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