Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 89
Iktomi is twisting your heads and breaking your necks!
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: twist, break · To what, where: heads, necks
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 (Iktomi), 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 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 twisting | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 twisting | aux |
| 3 | twisting | twist | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 heads | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 twisting | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 breaking | cc |
| 7 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 twisting | conj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 necks | nmod:poss |
| 9 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 breaking | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 twisting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist | present · progressive | Iktomi | your heads | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | break | gerund | Iktomi not said here | your necks | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer neck=Patient |
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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