Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 3
His long black hair is parted in the middle and wrapped with red, red bands.
What happens: part, wrap · To what, where: long black hair, middle
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: 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hair | nmod:poss |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hair | amod |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hair | amod |
| 4 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 parted | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 parted | aux:pass |
| 6 | parted | part | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 middle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 middle | det |
| 9 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 parted | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wrapped | cc |
| 11 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 parted | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 bands | case |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bands | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 red | punct |
| 15 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bands | amod |
| 16 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 wrapped | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 parted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | part | present · passive | IKTOMI's long black hair | the middle | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wrap | participle | with red red bands | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with band=Theme |
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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