Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 81
Each one shut his eyes very tight and danced even harder.
Who acts: one · What happens: shut, dance · To what, where: 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 (one), 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 | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shut | nsubj |
| 3 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shut | obj |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 tight | advmod |
| 7 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shut | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 danced | cc |
| 9 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shut | conj |
| 10 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 harder | advmod |
| 11 | harder | hard | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 danced | xcomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut | past | each one | IKTOMI's eyes | tight property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | dance | past | each one not said here | hard property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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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