Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 124
Just then a whiff of wind came rushing by and pressed together the broken edges.
Who acts: whiff · What happens: come, rush, press, break, whiff · To what, where: broken edges, wind
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 (whiff), 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 | _ | 2 then | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 came | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 whiff | det |
| 4 | whiff | whiff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wind | case |
| 6 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 whiff | nmod |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | xcomp |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 rushing | fixed |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 pressed | cc |
| 11 | pressed | press | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 rushing | conj |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 pressed | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 edges | det |
| 14 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 edges | amod |
| 15 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 pressed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a whiff of wind | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rush | gerund | a whiff of wind not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | press | participle | a whiff of wind not said here | the broken edges | together property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Theme | |||
| 4 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | whiff | wind | nom whiff «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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