Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 82
“This is the way to pierce the Blue overhead,” said he; and off he spun high into the sky.
Who acts: This, magician · What happens: be, pierce, say, spin · To what, where: way, Blue overhead, sky · 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 (This, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 way | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pierce | mark |
| 7 | pierce | pierce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 overhead | det |
| 9 | Blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 overhead | amod |
| 10 | overhead | overhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pierce | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 spun | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 off | cc |
| 17 | off | off | ADV | _ | 19 spun | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 spun | nsubj |
| 19 | spun | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | conj |
| 20 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 spun | advmod |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 sky | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sky | det |
| 23 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spun | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | the way | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pierce in a quote | to-infinitive | magician not said here | the Blue overhead | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent overhead=Patient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | magician | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | spin | past | magician | the sky | high, off property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into sky=Trajectory |
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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