Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 25
It was the smile of the Great Spirit upon the grandfather and the wayward child.
Who acts: light · What happens: be · To what, where: smile
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 (light), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 smile | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 smile | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 smile | det |
| 4 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Spirit | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Spirit | det |
| 7 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Spirit | amod |
| 8 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 smile | nmod |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 grandfather | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 grandfather | det |
| 11 | grandfather | grandfather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 smile | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 child | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 child | det |
| 14 | wayward | wayward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 child | amod |
| 15 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 grandfather | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 smile | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | light | the smile | of the Great Spirit; upon the grandfather and the wayward child | 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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