Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 21

Still unaffected by the myriad moons he rested on the everlasting hill, listening to the prayers of Indian warriors.

Who acts: Inyan, Indian warriors · What happens: rest, listen, pray · To what, where: myriad moons, everlasting hill

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, Indian warriors), 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	Still	still	ADV	_	2 unaffected	advmod
2	unaffected	unaffected	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 moons	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moons	det
5	myriad	myriad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moons	compound
6	moons	moon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 unaffected	obl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rested	nsubj
8	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 moons	acl:relcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	12 hill	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hill	det
11	everlasting	everlasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hill	compound
12	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rested	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 listening	punct
14	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 rested	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 prayers	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 prayers	det
17	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 listening	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 warriors	case
19	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 warriors	amod
20	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 prayers	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 unaffected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rest	past	Inyan	the myriad moons not said here	the everlasting hill		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent moon=Theme on hill=Location
2	listen	gerund	Inyan not said here			to the prayers of Indian warriors	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to prayer=Theme
3	pray		Indian warriors				nom prayer «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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