Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 77
“Now, young arrow, this is the one condition.
Who acts: this · What happens: be · To what, where: one condition
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 (this), 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 | _ | 5 arrow | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 young | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 arrow | amod |
| 5 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 condition | punct |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 condition | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 condition | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 condition | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 condition | compound |
| 11 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrow | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this | the one condition | 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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