Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 88
I see you are dressed in handsome deerskins and have red paint on your cheeks.
Who acts: I · What happens: see, dress, have · To what, where: you, handsome deerskins, red paint, cheeks · 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 (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 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 dressed | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dressed | aux:pass |
| 5 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 see | ccomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 deerskins | case |
| 7 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 deerskins | amod |
| 8 | deerskins | deerskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 dressed | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 have | cc |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dressed | conj |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 paint | amod |
| 12 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 cheeks | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 15 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 paint | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | dress | present · passive | you | handsome deerskins | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | present | red paint | your cheeks | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paint=Patient |
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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