Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 38

“Ough!” he shivered as he wiped his knife on the grass.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: shiver, wipe · To what, where: knife, grass

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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 shivered	punct
2	Ough	ough	INTJ	_	6 shivered	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ough	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ough	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shivered	nsubj
6	shivered	shiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 wiped	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wiped	nsubj
9	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shivered	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 knife	nmod:poss
11	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wiped	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 grass	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 grass	det
14	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wiped	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 shivered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shiver	past	Iktomi						vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	wipe	past	Iktomi	Iktomi's knife		the grass			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent knife=Theme on grass=Trajectory

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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