Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 134

If you will jump into the pit, I'll cover you with sweet smelling grass and cedar wood,” answered the fawn.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: jump, cover, answer · To what, where: pit, you, fawn

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, I), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 jump	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 jump	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 jump	aux
4	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 answered	advcl
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 pit	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 pit	det
7	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jump	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cover	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 cover	nsubj
10	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 cover	aux
11	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 jump	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 cover	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 grass	case
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grass	amod
15	smelling	smelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grass	compound
16	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cover	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 wood	cc
18	cedar	cedar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 wood	compound
19	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 grass	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 jump	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 jump	punct
22	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 fawn	det
24	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 answered	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	jump a condition, not said to happen	future	you			into the pit result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into pit=Result
2	cover	future	I		you	with sweet smelling grass and cedar wood	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Destination with grass=Theme
3	answer speech: assert in a quote	past		the fawn			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fawn=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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