Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 40

He turned up his nose at Iktomi, now almost out of sight, as much as to say: “Oh, no, Ikto; I do not hear your words!”

Who acts: Patkasa, your · What happens: turn up, say, not hear, word · To what, where: nose, Iktomi, Ikto, words · 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 (Patkasa, your), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 turned	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 nose	nmod:poss
5	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 Iktomi	case
7	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sight	punct
9	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 sight	advmod
10	almost	almost	ADV	_	13 sight	advmod
11	out	out	ADP	_	13 sight	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 sight	case
13	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 much	punct
15	as	as	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sight	nmod
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	19 say	mark
18	to	to	PART	_	19 say	mark
19	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 much	acl
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 Ikto	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 Ikto	punct
22	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	26 Ikto	discourse
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Oh	punct
24	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	22 Oh	discourse
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Oh	punct
26	Ikto	Ikto	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 say	obj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 hear	punct
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 hear	nsubj
29	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 hear	aux
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 hear	advmod
31	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 turned	parataxis
32	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 words	nmod:poss
33	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 hear	obj
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	31 hear	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	turn up	past	Patkasa	Patkasa's nose	Iktomi	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive		Ikto		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ikto=Topic
3	not hear in a quote	present · do-support	Patkasa	your words		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
4	word in a quote		your			nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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