Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 140
Thus with his own hands he aids in making his grave.
Who acts: desire · What happens: aid, make · To what, where: grave
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 (desire), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 hands | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 hands | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hands | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 hands | amod |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 aids | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 aids | nsubj |
| 7 | aids | aid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 making | mark |
| 9 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 aids | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 grave | nmod:poss |
| 11 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 making | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 aids | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aid | present | desire | with desire's own hands | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with hand=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | desire not said here | desire's grave | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset grave=Product |
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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