Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 31

“This is the answer from the red western sky!” cried Iktomi with hands uplifted.

Who acts: This, answer · What happens: be, cry, uplift · To what, where: answer, red western sky, hands · 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 (This, answer), 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	_	5 answer	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 answer	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 answer	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 answer	det
5	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cried	nsubj
6	from	from	ADP	_	10 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sky	det
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sky	amod
9	western	western	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 sky	amod
10	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 answer	nmod
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 answer	punct
13	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 cried	flat
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 hands	case
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cried	obl
17	uplifted	uplift	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 hands	acl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	This	the answer	the red western sky		tree rules
2	cry speech: express	past	the answer			with hands	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with hand=Theme
3	uplift	participle		hands not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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