Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 7
“Koda Ni Dakota!” which was “Friend, you're a Dakota!
Who acts: Ni Dakota, you · What happens: be · To what, where: Friend, Dakota
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 (Ni Dakota, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Dakota | punct |
| 2 | Koda | Koda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Ni | compound |
| 3 | Ni | Ni | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Dakota | compound |
| 4 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Friend | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Dakota | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Dakota | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 Friend | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Friend | cop |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Friend | punct |
| 10 | Friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Dakota | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 Dakota | nsubj |
| 13 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 Dakota | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Dakota | det |
| 15 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Friend | conj |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 Friend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | Ni Dakota | Friend and a Dakota | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | you | a Dakota | tree rules |
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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