Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 98

Peeping through the wild rice, he pointed with unsteady finger toward the boy playing all unawares.

Who acts: Tis, boy · What happens: peep, point, play

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Toad and the Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tis, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg338:1044): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peeping	peep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 pointed	advcl
2	through	through	ADP	_	5 rice	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rice	det
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 rice	amod
5	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Peeping	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Peeping	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pointed	nsubj
8	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 finger	case
10	unsteady	unsteady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 finger	amod
11	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pointed	obl
12	toward	toward	ADP	_	14 boy	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 boy	det
14	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pointed	obl
15	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 boy	acl
16	all	all	ADV	_	17 unawares	advmod
17	unawares	unawares	ADV	_	15 playing	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 pointed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	peep	gerund	Tis not said here	through the wild rice	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through rice=Theme
2	point	past	Tis	with unsteady finger; toward the boy	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	play	gerund	the boy not said here	unawares property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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