Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 25
Snatching up a slender willow stick with his free left hand, he started off with a hop and a leap.
Who acts: IKTOMI · What happens: snatch up, start off · To what, where: slender willow stick
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 | Snatching | snatch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 started | advcl |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Snatching | compound:prt |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stick | det |
| 4 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stick | amod |
| 5 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stick | compound |
| 6 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Snatching | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hand | amod |
| 10 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hand | amod |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Snatching | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Snatching | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 started | nsubj |
| 14 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 started | compound:prt |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 hop | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hop | det |
| 18 | hop | hop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 started | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 leap | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 leap | det |
| 21 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hop | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snatch up | gerund | IKTOMI not said here | a slender willow stick | with IKTOMI's free left hand | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme | |||
| 2 | start off | past | IKTOMI | with a hop and a leap | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with hop=Subeventuality |
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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