Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 28
On the hilltop he paused for breath.
Who acts: IKTOMI · What happens: pause · To what, where: hilltop
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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 hilltop | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hilltop | det |
| 3 | hilltop | hilltop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paused | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 paused | nsubj |
| 5 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 breath | case |
| 7 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 paused | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | IKTOMI | the hilltop | for breath | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hilltop=Location |
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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