Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 79

Never turn a curve nor jump about like a young fawn,” said the arrow magician.

Who acts: arrow magician · What happens: not turn, jump about, say · To what, where: curve · 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 (arrow magician), 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	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 turn	advmod
2	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 said	ccomp
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 curve	det
4	curve	curve	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turn	obj
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 jump	cc
6	jump	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 turn	conj
7	about	about	ADV	_	6 jump	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	11 fawn	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 fawn	det
10	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 fawn	amod
11	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jump	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 turn	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 turn	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 magician	det
16	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 magician	compound
17	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 said	nsubj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not turn	infinitive		a curve		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent curve=Theme
2	jump about	present			like a young fawn; about property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the arrow magician			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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