Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 51
Possessed by an irrepressible impulse the Iktomi peacock called out, “He!
What happens: possess, call out · To what, where: Iktomi peacock
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: 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 | Possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 peacock | advcl |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 impulse | case |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 impulse | det |
| 4 | irrepressible | irrepressible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 impulse | amod |
| 5 | impulse | impulse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Possessed | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 peacock | det |
| 7 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 peacock | compound |
| 8 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 peacock | acl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 called | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 He | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 He | punct |
| 13 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 peacock | appos |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 He | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | participle | by a irrepressible impulse | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | the Iktomi peacock not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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