Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 32
Slipping a long thin blade from out his belt, he cut large chunks of choice meat.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: slip out, cut · To what, where: long thin blade, large chunks
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 (Iktomi), 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 | Slipping | slip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 cut | advcl |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 blade | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blade | amod |
| 4 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blade | amod |
| 5 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Slipping | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 out | case |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Slipping | compound:prt |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 belt | nmod:poss |
| 9 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Slipping | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slipping | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 cut | nsubj |
| 12 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chunks | amod |
| 14 | chunks | chunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cut | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 meat | case |
| 16 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meat | compound |
| 17 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chunks | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip out | gerund | Iktomi not said here | a long thin blade | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent blade=Destination belt=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cut | past | Iktomi | large chunks of choice meat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chunk=Product |
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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