Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 33

Sharpening some willow sticks, he planted them around a wood-pile he had ready to kindle.

Who acts: Iktomi, wood pile · What happens: sharpen, plant, have, kindle · To what, where: willow sticks, sticks, wood pile

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, wood pile), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg338:173): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sharpening	sharpen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 planted	advcl
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 sticks	det
3	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sticks	compound
4	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sharpening	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sharpening	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 planted	nsubj
7	planted	plant	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 planted	obj
9	around	around	ADP	_	13 pile	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pile	det
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pile	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 wood	punct
13	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 planted	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 pile	acl:relcl
16	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 had	xcomp
17	to	to	PART	_	18 kindle	mark
18	kindle	kindle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 ready	xcomp
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 planted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sharpen	gerund	Iktomi not said here	some willow sticks			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stick=Patient
2	plant	past	Iktomi	sticks = stick	a wood pile		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme around pile=Destination
3	have	past	Iktomi	a wood pile not said here		ready property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pile=Patient
4	kindle	to-infinitive	a wood pile not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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