Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 2

The sun was but a handsbreadth from the western edge of land.

Who acts: sun · What happens: be · To what, where: handsbreadth, western edge

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 (sun), 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 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handsbreadth	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 handsbreadth	cop
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 handsbreadth	cc
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 handsbreadth	det
6	handsbreadth	handsbreadth	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	10 edge	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 edge	det
9	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 edge	amod
10	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handsbreadth	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 land	case
12	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 edge	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 handsbreadth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the sun	a handsbreadth		the western edge of land			tree rules

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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