Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 78
Your flight must always be in a straight line.
Who acts: flight · What happens: be · To what, where: straight line
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 (flight), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 flight | nmod:poss |
| 2 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 line | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 line | aux |
| 4 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 line | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 line | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 line | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 line | det |
| 8 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 line | amod |
| 9 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 line | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | must | Your flight | a straight line | always property | 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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