Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 17
Pleased with the child, she smoothed the long black hair fringing his round brown face.
Who acts: infant, long black hair · What happens: please, smooth, fringe · To what, where: long black hair, round brown face
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 (infant, long black hair), 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 | Pleased | please | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 smoothed | advcl |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 child | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 child | det |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pleased | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pleased | punct |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 smoothed | nsubj |
| 7 | smoothed | smooth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hair | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hair | amod |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hair | amod |
| 11 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 smoothed | obj |
| 12 | fringing | fringe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 hair | acl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 face | nmod:poss |
| 14 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 face | amod |
| 15 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 face | amod |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fringing | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 smoothed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please | participle | infant not said here | with the child | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | smooth | past | infant | the long black hair | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hair=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fringe | gerund | the long black hair not said here | child's round brown face | tree rules |
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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