Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 15

I could keep ten conditions if only you would change me into a bird with long, bright tail feathers.

Who acts: I, you · What happens: keep, change · To what, where: ten conditions, me

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, you), 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 keep	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 keep	aux
3	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 conditions	nummod
5	conditions	condition	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 keep	obj
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 change	mark
7	only	only	ADV	_	10 change	advmod
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 change	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 change	aux
10	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 keep	advcl
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 change	obj
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 bird	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bird	det
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 change	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	20 feathers	case
16	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 feathers	amod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 long	punct
18	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 feathers	amod
19	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 feathers	compound
20	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 change	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	could	I	ten conditions					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Theme
2	change a condition, not said to happen	would	you	me				into a bird; with long bright tail feathers	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent i=Theme with feather=Co-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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