Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 14

Suddenly raising up his head Patkasa's black eyes twinkled as he asked: “Oh, you really say so?”

Who acts: Iktomi, you · What happens: raise up, twinkle, ask, say · To what, where: head, black eyes · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Turtle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iktomi, 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	2 raising	advmod
2	raising	raise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 raising	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 raising	obj
6	Patkasa	Patkasa	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 eyes	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Patkasa	case
8	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eyes	amod
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 raising	obj
10	twinkled	twinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 eyes	acl
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 asked	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	nsubj
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 twinkled	advcl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
16	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	20 say	discourse
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Oh	punct
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 say	nsubj
19	really	really	ADV	_	20 say	advmod
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 raising	parataxis
21	so	so	ADV	_	20 say	advmod
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	raise up	gerund		Iktomi's head	suddenly property	tree rules
2	twinkle	participle		Patkasa's black eyes not said here		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past	Iktomi			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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