Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 4
Each round braid hangs over a small brown ear and falls forward over his shoulders.
Who acts: round braid · What happens: hang, fall · To what, where: small brown ear, shoulders
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 (round braid), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 braid | det |
| 2 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 braid | amod |
| 3 | braid | braid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hangs | nsubj |
| 4 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 ear | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 ear | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ear | amod |
| 8 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ear | amod |
| 9 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hangs | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 falls | cc |
| 11 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hangs | conj |
| 12 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 11 falls | advmod |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 shoulders | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 15 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 falls | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hangs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | present | each round braid | a small brown ear | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over ear=Location | ||||
| 2 | fall | present | each round braid not said here | braid's shoulders | forward property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over shoulder=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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