Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 147
“Is that Iktomi's spirit?” asked one fawn of another.
Who acts: spirit · What happens: be
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 (spirit), 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 | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 asked | mark |
| 4 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Iktomi | case |
| 6 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 spirit | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 spirit | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 fawn | nummod |
| 11 | fawn | fawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 another | case |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 fawn | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Iktomi's spirit | ask property | tree rules |
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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