Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 144
Real tears washed brown streaks across his red-painted cheeks.
Who acts: Real tears · What happens: wash, paint · To what, where: brown streaks, painted cheeks
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 (Real tears), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tears | amod |
| 2 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tears | acl |
| 4 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 streaks | amod |
| 5 | streaks | streak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 washed | obj |
| 6 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 cheeks | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 cheeks | nmod:poss |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 painted | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 red | punct |
| 10 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 cheeks | amod |
| 11 | cheeks | cheek | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 washed | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wash | participle | Real tears not said here | brown streaks | IKTOMI's painted cheeks | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent streak=Patient | |||
| 2 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «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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