Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 22
Very low in Iktomi's ear the peacock whispered, “Are you willing to keep one condition, though hard it be?”
Who acts: peacock, you, condition · What happens: whisper, be, keep · To what, where: ear, one condition · 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 (peacock, you, condition), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 low | advmod |
| 2 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 whispered | advcl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 ear | case |
| 4 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ear | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Iktomi | case |
| 6 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whispered | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 peacock | det |
| 8 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whispered | nsubj |
| 9 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 willing | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 willing | punct |
| 12 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 willing | cop |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 willing | nsubj |
| 14 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 whispered | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 keep | mark |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 willing | xcomp |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 condition | nummod |
| 18 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keep | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hard | punct |
| 20 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 hard | mark |
| 21 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 keep | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 be | nsubj |
| 23 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hard | xcomp |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 willing | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: ask | past | the peacock | Iktomi's ear | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | you | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | one condition | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent condition=Theme | ||||
| 4 | be in a quote | infinitive | condition | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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