Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 136
You will make sure that the spots will be as brown as those you wear.”
Who acts: You, spots · What happens: make, be, wear
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, spots), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | aux |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 make | xcomp |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 brown | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spots | det |
| 7 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 brown | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 brown | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 brown | cop |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 brown | advmod |
| 11 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 those | case |
| 13 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 brown | obl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 wear | nsubj |
| 15 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 those | acl:relcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | future | You | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | future | the spots | as those; brown property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wear | present | you | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
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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