Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 68

Clapping together their little hands, they chased one another along the edge of the creek.

Who acts: coals · What happens: clap together, chase · To what, where: little hands, one, edge

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 (coals), 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	Clapping	clap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 chased	advcl
2	together	together	ADV	_	1 Clapping	advmod
3	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hands	nmod:poss
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hands	amod
5	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Clapping	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Clapping	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 chased	nsubj
8	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 chased	obj
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 one	fixed
11	along	along	ADP	_	13 edge	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 edge	det
13	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chased	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 creek	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 creek	det
16	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 edge	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 chased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clap together	gerund	coals = coal not said here	coals's little hands				together property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme
2	chase	past	coals = coal	one		the edge of the creek			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent one=Theme along edge=Trajectory

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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