Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 135

“Say,” interrupted Ikto, “will you be sure to cover me with a great deal of dry grass and twigs?

Who acts: you · What happens: interrupt, be, cover, deal · To what, where: Ikto, fawn, dry grass

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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 interrupted	punct
2	Say	say	INTJ	_	5 interrupted	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Say	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Say	punct
5	interrupted	interrupt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Ikto	Ikto	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 interrupted	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sure	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 sure	punct
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 sure	aux
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 sure	nsubj
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 sure	cop
12	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 interrupted	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 cover	mark
14	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 sure	xcomp
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 cover	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 deal	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 deal	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 deal	amod
19	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cover	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 grass	case
21	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 grass	amod
22	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 deal	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 twigs	cc
24	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 grass	conj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 interrupted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	interrupt	past		Ikto			tree rules
2	is in a quote	future	you			sure property	tree rules
3	cover in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		the fawn = fawn	with a great deal of dry grass and twigs	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Destination with deal=Theme
4	deal in a quote			dry grass and twigs			nom deal «act transitive»: of=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/6/135/