Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 5
He even paints his funny face with red and yellow, and draws big black rings around his eyes.
Who acts: braid · What happens: paint, draw · To what, where: funny face, big black rings, eyes
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 paints | nsubj |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 3 paints | advmod |
| 3 | paints | paint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 face | nmod:poss |
| 5 | funny | funny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 face | amod |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paints | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 red | case |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 paints | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 yellow | cc |
| 10 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 red | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 draws | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 draws | cc |
| 13 | draws | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 paints | conj |
| 14 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rings | amod |
| 15 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 rings | amod |
| 16 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 draws | obj |
| 17 | around | around | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rings | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 paints | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | paint | present | braid | braid's funny face | with red | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with red=Theme | |||
| 2 | draw | present | braid not said here | big black rings | braid's eyes | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=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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