Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 31
With excited fingers they twisted their hair into glossy braids and painted their cheeks with bright red paint.
Who acts: fingers · What happens: twist, paint · To what, where: hair, glossy braids, cheeks
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 (fingers), 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 | _ | 3 fingers | case |
| 2 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fingers | amod |
| 3 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 twisted | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 twisted | nsubj |
| 5 | twisted | twist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hair | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 twisted | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 braids | case |
| 9 | glossy | glossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 braids | amod |
| 10 | braids | braid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 twisted | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 painted | cc |
| 12 | painted | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 twisted | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 14 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 painted | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 paint | case |
| 16 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 paint | amod |
| 17 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 paint | amod |
| 18 | paint | paint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 painted | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 twisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist | past | fingers = finger | fingers's hair | glossy braids | with excited fingers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent hair=Theme into braid=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | paint | past | fingers = finger not said here | fingers's cheeks | with bright red paint | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent cheek=Destination with paint=Theme |
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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