Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 28

“Now, grandfather, accept my offering; 'tis all I have,” said Iktomi as he spread his half-worn blanket upon Inyan's cold shoulders.

Who acts: grandfather, Iktomi, my · What happens: accept, have, say, spread, offer · To what, where: offering, worn blanket, cold shoulders · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (grandfather, Iktomi, my), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 accept	punct
2	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 accept	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Now	punct
4	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 accept	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grandfather	punct
6	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 offering	nmod:poss
8	offering	offering	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 accept	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 tis	punct
11	tis	tis	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 tis	nmod
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 all	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 tis	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 accept	parataxis
18	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 spread	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 spread	nsubj
21	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	ccomp
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 blanket	nmod:poss
23	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	25 worn	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 half	punct
25	worn	worn	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 blanket	amod
26	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spread	obj
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	31 shoulders	case
28	Inyan	Inyan	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 shoulders	nmod:poss
29	's	's	PART	_	28 Inyan	case
30	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 shoulders	amod
31	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 spread	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 accept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	accept in a quote	infinitive	grandfather	my offering		now	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent offering=Theme clause=Attribute
2	have in a quote	present	Iktomi				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: assert	past	Iktomi				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	spread	past	Iktomi	Iktomi's worn blanket	Inyan's cold shoulders		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent blanket=Theme upon shoulder=Destination
5	offer in a quote		my				nom offering «communication transitive»: poss=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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