Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 72
One condition, though hard it be?” the arrow turned to ask.
Who acts: condition, One condition · What happens: be, turn, ask
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 (condition, One condition), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 condition | nummod |
| 2 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hard | punct |
| 4 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 hard | mark |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 condition | conj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 be | nsubj |
| 7 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hard | xcomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 condition | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 condition | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 arrow | det |
| 11 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | nsubj |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 ask | mark |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 turned | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | infinitive | condition | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | turn in a quote | past | One condition | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | One condition not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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