Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 94
I long to be happy as you are,” said he.
Who acts: I, Iktomi, you · What happens: long, be, say · 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 (I, Iktomi, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 long | nsubj |
| 2 | long | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 happy | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 happy | cop |
| 5 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | advcl |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 are | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 are | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 happy | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 are | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 happy | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 long | parataxis |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | long | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | Iktomi not said here | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | does | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Iktomi | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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