Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 19

He was the great-grandfather, for he had sat upon the hillside many, many seasons.

Who acts: Inyan · What happens: be, sit · To what, where: great grandfather, hillside

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 (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grandfather	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grandfather	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grandfather	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grandfather	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 great	punct
6	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 sat	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sat	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sat	aux
11	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 grandfather	acl:relcl
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 hillside	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hillside	det
14	hillside	hillside	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
15	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hillside	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seasons	punct
17	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 seasons	amod
18	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hillside	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grandfather	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Inyan	the great grandfather					tree rules
2	sit	past · perfect	Inyan	the great grandfather not said here		the hillside and many seasons			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent grandfather=Theme upon hillside=Location

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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