Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 39
Upon the day you try to fly you shall be changed into your former self.”
Who acts: you · What happens: try, fly, change · To what, where: you, former self
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 (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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 try | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 try | nsubj |
| 5 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fly | mark |
| 7 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 try | xcomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 changed | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 changed | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 changed | aux:pass |
| 11 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fly | ccomp |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 self | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 self | nmod:poss |
| 14 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 self | amod |
| 15 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 changed | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present | you | day | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fly not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | change | shall · passive | you | into your former self result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into self=Result |
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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