Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 29
With wicked smacks of his dry parched lips, as if tasting some tender meat, he looked straight into space toward the marshy river bottom.
Who acts: dry parched lips, some, IKTOMI · What happens: parch, taste, tender, look, smack · To what, where: meat, dry parched lips
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 (dry parched lips, some, 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 smacks | case |
| 2 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 smacks | amod |
| 3 | smacks | smack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 looked | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 lips | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lips | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lips | amod |
| 7 | parched | parch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 lips | amod |
| 8 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 smacks | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tasting | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 tasting | mark |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 tasting | mark |
| 12 | tasting | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 lips | acl |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 tender | nsubj |
| 14 | tender | tender | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 tasting | ccomp |
| 15 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tender | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 smacks | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 looked | nsubj |
| 18 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 21 space | advmod |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 space | case |
| 21 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looked | obl |
| 22 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 26 bottom | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bottom | det |
| 24 | marshy | marshy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 bottom | amod |
| 25 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bottom | compound |
| 26 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 looked | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | parch | participle | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | taste a condition, not said to happen | gerund | IKTOMI's dry parched lips not said here | vn see-30.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | tender | present | some | meat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look | past | IKTOMI | with wicked smacks of IKTOMI's dry parched lips; toward the marshy river bottom; into space | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into space=Theme | ||||
| 5 | smack | IKTOMI's dry parched lips | nom smack «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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