Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 139
“Now let us dig the hole, pull the grass, and gather sticks,” cried Iktomi in glee.
Who acts: us · What happens: let, dig, pull, gather, cry · To what, where: us, hole, grass, sticks, glee · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (us), 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 | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 cried | ccomp |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 let | obj |
| 5 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hole | det |
| 7 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dig | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pull | punct |
| 9 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 grass | det |
| 11 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pull | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gather | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gather | cc |
| 14 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 15 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 gather | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gather | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
| 18 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 cried | flat |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 glee | case |
| 21 | glee | glee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cried | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | dig in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | the hole | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pull in a quote | infinitive | the grass | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Theme | |||||
| 4 | gather in a quote | present | sticks | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | glee | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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