Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 8
If only I were a handsome feathered creature how happy I would be!
Who acts: I · What happens: be · To what, where: handsome feathered creature
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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 happy | mark |
| 2 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 creature | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 creature | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 creature | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 creature | det |
| 6 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 creature | amod |
| 7 | feathered | feathered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 creature | amod |
| 8 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 happy | nsubj |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 happy | advmod |
| 10 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 be | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 be | aux |
| 13 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 happy | ccomp |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 happy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | I | a handsome feathered creature | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | would | I | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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