Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 24

Patkasa, with doubled fists, swung his fat arms to and fro, all the while biting hard his under lip.

Who acts: Patkasa, while · What happens: double, swing, fro, bite · To what, where: fat arms, lip

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, while), 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	Patkasa	Patkasa	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 swung	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fists	punct
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 fists	case
4	doubled	double	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fists	amod
5	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Patkasa	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Patkasa	punct
7	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 arms	nmod:poss
9	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 arms	compound
10	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 swung	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 fro	case
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fro	cc
13	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 swung	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fro	punct
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 while	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 while	det
17	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fro	obl
18	biting	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 while	acl
19	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 biting	advmod
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 lip	nmod:poss
21	under	under	ADP	_	22 lip	case
22	lip	lip	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 biting	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 swung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	double	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	swing	past	Patkasa and doubled fists	Patkasa's fat arms			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
3	fro	infinitive	Patkasa and doubled fists not said here		while		tree rules
4	bite	gerund	all while not said here	Patkasa's lip		hard property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=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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