Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 22
In little puffs Patkasa laughed uneasily.
Who acts: Patkasa · What happens: laugh
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 (Patkasa), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 puffs | case |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 puffs | amod |
| 3 | puffs | puff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 laughed | obl |
| 4 | Patkasa | Patkasa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 laughed | nsubj |
| 5 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | uneasily | uneasily | ADV | _ | 5 laughed | advmod |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | Patkasa | in little puffs; uneasily property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in puff=Theme |
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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