Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 6
In another instant he held up in both his hands a tiny little baby, wrapped in soft brown buckskins.
Who acts: Hunhe · What happens: hold up, wrap · To what, where: instant, tiny little baby, soft brown buckskins
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 (Hunhe), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 instant | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 instant | det |
| 3 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 held | nsubj |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 held | compound:prt |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hands | case |
| 8 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 10 hands | cc:preconj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hands | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 held | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 baby | det |
| 12 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 baby | amod |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 baby | amod |
| 14 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wrapped | punct |
| 16 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 baby | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 buckskins | case |
| 18 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 buckskins | amod |
| 19 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 buckskins | amod |
| 20 | buckskins | buckskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wrapped | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold up | past | Hunhe | another instant | in Hunhe's hands | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 2 | wrap | participle | a tiny little baby not said here | soft brown buckskins | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in buckskin=Destination |
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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