Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 117
I have the beaded buckskins of the great avenger!”
Who acts: I · What happens: have, bead · To what, where: beaded buckskins
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 buckskins | det |
| 4 | beaded | bead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 buckskins | amod |
| 5 | buckskins | buckskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 avenger | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 avenger | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 avenger | amod |
| 9 | avenger | avenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 buckskins | nmod |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | the beaded buckskins of the great avenger | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buckskin=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bead | participle | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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