Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 6
He wears a deerskin jacket, with bright colored beads sewed tightly on it.
Who acts: braid, bright colored beads · What happens: wear, sew · To what, where: deerskin jacket, jacket
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, bright colored beads), 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 | 2 wears | nsubj |
| 2 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 jacket | det |
| 4 | deerskin | deerskin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 jacket | compound |
| 5 | jacket | jacket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wears | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sewed | punct |
| 7 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 11 sewed | mark |
| 8 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beads | amod |
| 9 | colored | colored | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beads | amod |
| 10 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sewed | nsubj |
| 11 | sewed | sew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wears | conj |
| 12 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 11 sewed | advmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 it | case |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sewed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wears | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | present | braid | a deerskin jacket | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent jacket=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sew | past | bright colored beads | jacket | tightly property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on it=Destination |
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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