Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 83
He is a Dakota, but soon he'll grow into the bark on this tree!
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: be, grow · To what, where: Dakota, bark
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Dakota | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Dakota | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Dakota | det |
| 4 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grow | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 grow | cc |
| 7 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 grow | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 grow | nsubj |
| 9 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 grow | aux |
| 10 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 Dakota | acl:relcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 bark | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bark | det |
| 13 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grow | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 tree | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 tree | det |
| 16 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 grow | obl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 Dakota | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Iktomi | a Dakota | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | future | Iktomi | a Dakota not said here | the bark | on this tree; soon property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent dakota=Material into bark=Product |
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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