Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 129

Waving his hands toward them, he called in his loudest voice, “He!

Who acts: whiff · What happens: wave, call · To what, where: hands, IKTOMI, loudest voice · Speech: someone speaks here

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	Waving	wave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 called	advcl
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hands	nmod:poss
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Waving	obj
4	toward	toward	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Waving	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Waving	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 called	nsubj
8	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 voice	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 voice	nmod:poss
11	loudest	loud	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 voice	amod
12	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 called	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 He	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 He	punct
15	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 called	obl
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wave	gerund	whiff not said here	whiff's hands				toward hands = hand	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
2	call	past	whiff	IKTOMI		whiff's loudest voice			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: 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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