Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 104
“My friend, toss to me your arrow that I may have the honor of wiping it clean on soft deerskin!” exclaimed Iktomi.
Who acts: friend, arrow, honor, Iktomi · What happens: arrow, have, wipe, exclaim · To what, where: honor, soft deerskin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friend, arrow, honor, Iktomi), 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 | _ | 9 arrow | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arrow | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 toss | punct |
| 5 | toss | toss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 friend | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 toss | nmod |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 9 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 have | nsubj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 have | nsubj |
| 12 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 have | aux |
| 13 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 arrow | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 honor | det |
| 15 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 have | obj |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 wiping | mark |
| 17 | wiping | wipe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 honor | acl |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 wiping | obj |
| 19 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 wiping | xcomp |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 deerskin | case |
| 21 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 deerskin | amod |
| 22 | deerskin | deerskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wiping | obl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 have | punct |
| 25 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 26 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 exclaimed | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrow in a quote | My friend and toss to me | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | have in a quote | may | your arrow | the honor | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honor=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wipe in a quote | gerund | the honor not said here | honor | soft deerskin | clean property | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme on deerskin=Trajectory | ||
| 4 | exclaim speech: express | past | Iktomi | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how 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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