Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 90
Seeing the young man only smiled Iktomi went on: “I have not had a mouthful of food this day.
Who acts: Seeing, Iktomi, bird · What happens: see, smile, go on, not have · To what, where: young man, mouthful · 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 (Seeing, Iktomi, bird), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 smiled | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 smiled | advmod |
| 6 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 smiled | ccomp |
| 9 | on | on | ADV | _ | 8 went | advmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 had | nsubj |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 had | advmod |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 smiled | parataxis |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 mouthful | det |
| 17 | mouthful | mouthful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 food | case |
| 19 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mouthful | nmod |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 day | det |
| 21 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the young man | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | smile | past | Seeing | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go on | past | Iktomi | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not have in a quote | present · perfect | the bird with the yellow breast = bird | a mouthful of food | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouthful=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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