Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 66
He was making ready for his flight when Iktomi rushed upon him and wailed, “I want to be an arrow!
Who acts: One, Iktomi · What happens: make, rush, wail, want, be · To what, where: arrow · 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 (One, Iktomi), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 making | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 making | aux |
| 3 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 making | xcomp |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 flight | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 flight | nmod:poss |
| 7 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ready | obl |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 rushed | advmod |
| 9 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 rushed | nsubj |
| 10 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 making | advcl |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rushed | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 wailed | cc |
| 14 | wailed | wail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rushed | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 want | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 want | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 want | nsubj |
| 18 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 wailed | ccomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 arrow | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 arrow | cop |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 arrow | det |
| 22 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 want | xcomp |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 making | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · progressive | One | ready property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rush | past | Iktomi | upon One | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | wail | past | Iktomi not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | want in a quote | present | Iktomi | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | is a not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Iktomi not said here | a arrow | tree rules |
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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