Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 23

Quickly spreading it on the ground, he tore up dry tall grass with both his hands and tossed it fast into the blanket.

Who acts: IKTOMI · What happens: spread, tore up, toss · To what, where: blanket, ground, dry tall grass

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 (IKTOMI), 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	Quickly	quickly	ADV	_	2 spreading	advmod
2	spreading	spread	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 tore	advcl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spreading	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 ground	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ground	det
6	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spreading	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 spreading	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tore	nsubj
9	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 tore	compound:prt
11	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grass	amod
12	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 grass	amod
13	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tore	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 hands	case
15	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	17 hands	det:predet
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 hands	nmod:poss
17	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grass	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 tossed	cc
19	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tore	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 tossed	obj
21	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 tossed	advmod
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 blanket	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 blanket	det
24	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tossed	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 tore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread	gerund	IKTOMI not said here	blanket	the ground	quickly property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on ground=Destination
2	tore up	past	IKTOMI	dry tall grass		with IKTOMI's hands	tree rules
3	toss	past	IKTOMI not said here	blanket	the blanket	fast property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Patient into blanket=Recipient

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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