Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 53
Wait for me!” and with that he gave a lunge into the air.
Who acts: you, flock · What happens: wait, give · To what, where: lunge, air
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, flock), 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Wait | obl |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 7 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 10 gave | mark |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 gave | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lunge | det |
| 12 | lunge | lunge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 air | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 air | det |
| 15 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | for me | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | past | flock | a lunge | the air | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunge=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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