Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 142
Now severe pains shot up from his foot through his whole body.
Who acts: severe pains · What happens: shoot up · To what, where: foot
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 (severe pains), 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 | 4 shot | advmod |
| 2 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pains | amod |
| 3 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shot | nsubj |
| 4 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 shot | compound:prt |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 foot | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 foot | nmod:poss |
| 8 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shot | obl |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 body | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 body | nmod:poss |
| 11 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 body | amod |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shot | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot up | past | severe pains | IKTOMI's foot | now | through IKTOMI's whole body | vn eat-39.1 «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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