--- title: I'd be so glad to sit upon a very high tree and bask in the summer s… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics description: I'd be so glad to sit upon a very high tree and bask in the summer sun like you!” said he suddenly, pointing his bony finger up toward the peacock, who was eyeing the stranger below, turning his head from side to side. Who acts: I, creature, peacock. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/6/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Old Indian Legends](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/) / [Iktomi and the Fawn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/6/) / 9 # Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 9 I'd be so glad to sit upon a very high tree and bask in the summer sun like you!” said he suddenly, pointing his bony finger up toward the peacock, who was eyeing the stranger below, turning his head from side to side. **Who acts:** I, creature, peacock · **What happens:** be, sit, bask, say, point, eye · **To what, where:** high tree, summer sun, bony finger, stranger, head, side · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Fawn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, creature, peacock), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg338:6:9 # text = I'd be so glad to sit upon a very high tree and bask in the summer sun like you!” said he suddenly, pointing his bony finger up toward the peacock, who was eyeing the stranger below, turning his head from side to side. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 5 cop _ _ 4 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 glad glad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 ccomp _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ _ 8 upon upon ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 10 very very ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 bask bask VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ” " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 23 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 25 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 pointing point VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 ccomp _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 bony bony ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 finger finger NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 up up ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 toward toward ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 peacock peacock NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 eyeing eye VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 34 acl:relcl _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ _ 41 below below ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 43 turning turn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 conj _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 from from ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ _ 48 to to ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 23 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | would | I | | | | | glad *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **sit** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | a high tree | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon tree=Location | | 3 | **bask** | present | I *not said here* | | | the summer sun like you | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **point** *in a quote* | gerund | creature | creature's bony finger | | | | toward the peacock; suddenly *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient | | 6 | **eye** *in a quote* | past · progressive | the peacock | the stranger | | | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stranger=Stimulus | | 7 | **turn** *in a quote* | gerund | creature *not said here* | creature's head | | side | | to side | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme from side=Source to side=Trajectory | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/6/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/6/10/) - ↑ back to [Iktomi and the Fawn](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/6/)