Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 109
Just above his ankles he clasped and unclasped his long bony fingers.
Who acts: chin · What happens: clasp, unclasp · To what, where: ankles, long bony fingers
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Ducks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chin), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 6 clasped | advmod |
| 2 | above | above | ADP | _ | 4 ankles | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 ankles | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ankles | ankle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 clasped | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 clasped | nsubj |
| 6 | clasped | clasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 unclasped | cc |
| 8 | unclasped | unclasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 clasped | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fingers | amod |
| 11 | bony | bony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fingers | amod |
| 12 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 unclasped | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 clasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clasp | past | chin | chin's ankles | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | unclasp | past | chin not said here | chin's long bony fingers | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient |
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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