Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 105

With perspiration beading his brow he strove to wiggle his slender legs beneath his giant form.

Who acts: perspiration, sun · What happens: bead, strive, wiggle, form · To what, where: brow, slender legs

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iya, the Camp-eater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (perspiration, sun), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 perspiration	case
2	perspiration	perspiration	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 strove	obl
3	beading	bead	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 perspiration	acl
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 brow	nmod:poss
5	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beading	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 strove	nsubj
7	strove	strive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 wiggle	mark
9	wiggle	wiggle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 strove	xcomp
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 legs	nmod:poss
11	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 legs	amod
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wiggle	obj
13	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	16 form	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 form	nmod:poss
15	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 form	amod
16	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wiggle	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 strove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	bead	gerund	perspiration not said here	sun's brow		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brow=Product
2	strive	past	sun		with perspiration	tree rules
3	wiggle	to-infinitive	sun not said here	sun's slender legs	beneath sun's giant form	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
4	form		sun			nom form «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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