Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 24

I've told you ten of them if need be!” exclaimed Iktomi, with some impatience.

Who acts: I, need · What happens: tell, be, exclaim · To what, where: ten, Iktomi · 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 (I, need), 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 told	nsubj
2	've	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 told	aux
3	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 told	iobj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ten	nmod
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 be	mark
9	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 be	nsubj
10	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	ccomp
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 exclaimed	punct
13	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 told	conj
14	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 exclaimed	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 impatience	punct
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 impatience	case
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 impatience	det
18	impatience	impatience	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 exclaimed	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present · perfect	I		ten of wings		tree rules
2	be a condition, not said to happen	infinitive	need				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	exclaim speech: express in a quote	past	I not said here	Iktomi		with some impatience	vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent iktomi=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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