Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 27
“Ho-wo,” he replied, still working his short arms.
Who acts: Patkasa · What happens: reply, work · To what, where: short arms
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wo | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ho | punct |
| 4 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | aux |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wo | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wo | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 working | punct |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 working | advmod |
| 11 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 replied | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 arms | nmod:poss |
| 13 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 arms | amod |
| 14 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 working | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | future | Patkasa | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | work | gerund | Patkasa not said here | Patkasa's short arms | still | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent arm=Material |
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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