Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 68

I want to pierce the blue Blue overhead.

Who acts: I · What happens: want, pierce · To what, where: blue Blue overhead

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 want	nsubj
2	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 pierce	mark
4	pierce	pierce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 want	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 overhead	det
6	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 overhead	amod
7	Blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 overhead	amod
8	overhead	overhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pierce	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	I						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	pierce not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	the blue Blue overhead					vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent overhead=Patient

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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