Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 56
“I am my old self again!” groaned Iktomi in a sad voice.
Who acts: peacock, old self · What happens: be, groan · To what, where: old self, Iktomi, sad voice
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 (peacock, old self), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 self | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 self | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 self | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 self | nmod:poss |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 self | amod |
| 6 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 groaned | nsubj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 self | advmod |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 self | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 self | punct |
| 10 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 groaned | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 14 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voice | amod |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 groaned | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 groaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the peacock = peacock | my old self | again | tree rules | |||
| 2 | groan | past | my old self | Iktomi | a sad voice | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent iktomi=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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