Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 16
All the while he stroked and caressed the face of the great stone god.
Who acts: grandfather · What happens: stroke, caress · To what, where: face
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi's Blanket. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandfather), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 while | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stroked | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stroked | nsubj |
| 5 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 caressed | cc |
| 7 | caressed | caress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stroked | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 face | det |
| 9 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 caressed | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 god | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 god | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 god | amod |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 god | compound |
| 14 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 face | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stroked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroke | past | grandfather | while | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | caress | past | grandfather not said here | the face of the great stone god | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Experiencer |
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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