Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 110

Now and then he sniffed impatiently the savory odor.

Who acts: chin · What happens: sniff · To what, where: savory odor

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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sniffed	advmod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 sniffed	cc
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sniffed	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sniffed	nsubj
5	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	impatiently	impatiently	ADV	_	5 sniffed	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 odor	det
8	savory	savory	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 odor	amod
9	odor	odor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sniffed	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sniffed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sniff	past	chin	the savory odor			now; then	impatiently property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent odor=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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