Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 35

Brightly tinted feathers are handsome, but I wish they were light enough to fly!”

Who acts: tinted feathers, I, feathers · What happens: tint, be, wish, fly · 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 (tinted feathers, I, feathers), 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	Brightly	brightly	ADV	_	2 tinted	advmod
2	tinted	tint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 feathers	amod
3	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 handsome	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 handsome	cop
5	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wish	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 wish	cc
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 wish	nsubj
9	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 handsome	conj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 light	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 light	cop
12	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wish	ccomp
13	enough	enough	ADV	_	12 light	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 fly	mark
15	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 light	advcl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 handsome	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 handsome	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	tint	participle		brightly property	vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	tinted feathers	handsome property	tree rules
3	wish	present	I		vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	is	past	feathers = feather	enough, light property	tree rules
5	fly	to-infinitive	feathers = feather not said here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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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