Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 37

“He, listen!” he shouted, rubbing his mischievous palms together, for where there was any trouble brewing, he was always in the midst of it.

Who acts: Iktomi, rubbing, trouble · What happens: listen, shout, rub, be, brew · To what, where: mischievous palms, trouble, midst · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Warlike Seven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iktomi, rubbing, trouble), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 listen	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct
4	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 shouted	ccomp
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 listen	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shouted	nsubj
8	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 rubbing	punct
10	rubbing	rub	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 trouble	csubj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 palms	nmod:poss
12	mischievous	mischievous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 palms	amod
13	palms	palm	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rubbing	obj
14	together	together	ADV	_	10 rubbing	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 was	punct
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 was	mark
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 was	advmod
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 trouble	cop
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 trouble	det
21	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shouted	obj
22	brewing	brew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 trouble	acl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 midst	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 midst	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 midst	cop
26	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	29 midst	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 midst	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 midst	det
29	midst	midst	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 trouble	conj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 midst	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 shouted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	listen in a quote	infinitive	Iktomi				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	shout speech: express	past	Iktomi				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	rub	gerund		Iktomi's mischievous palms		together property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent palm=Theme
4	is a	past	rubbing	any trouble and the midst			tree rules
5	brew	gerund	any trouble and the midst not said here				vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	Iktomi		the midst	of midst; always property	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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