Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 18
The hearing of Inyan, the large hard stone, was the one most sought after.
Who acts: hearing, Inyan · What happens: be, seek, hear · To what, where: one
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 (hearing, Inyan), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hearing | det |
| 2 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 one | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Inyan | case |
| 4 | Inyan | Inyan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stone | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stone | det |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stone | amod |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stone | amod |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Inyan | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearing | punct |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 one | cop |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 one | det |
| 13 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 sought | advmod |
| 15 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 one | acl |
| 16 | after | after | ADV | _ | 15 sought | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the hearing of Inyan | the one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | seek | participle | the one not said here | after property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hear | Inyan | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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