Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 89
He is a giant with spindling legs.
Who acts: Iya · What happens: be, spindle
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 (Iya), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 giant | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 giant | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 giant | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 legs | case |
| 6 | spindling | spindle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 legs | amod |
| 7 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 giant | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 giant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Iya | with spindling legs; giant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spindle | gerund | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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