Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 138

I'll pile up grass and willows once oftener than my mother did.”

Who acts: I, mother · What happens: pile up, willow, do · To what, where: 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 (I, mother), 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 pile	nsubj
2	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 pile	aux
3	pile	pile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 pile	compound:prt
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pile	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 willows	cc
7	willows	willow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 pile	conj
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 oftener	advmod
9	oftener	often	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 willows	xcomp
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	13 did	mark
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mother	nmod:poss
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 did	nsubj
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 oftener	advcl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pile	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 pile	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pile up	future	I	grass		vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grass=Theme
2	willow	present	I not said here		often property	tree rules
3	do	past	my mother			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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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