Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 39
Tucking it in a beaded case hanging from his belt, Iktomi stood erect, looking about.
Who acts: Iktomi, beaded case · What happens: tuck, bead, hang, stand, look · To what, where: knife, beaded case, belt
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, beaded case), 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 | Tucking | tuck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 stood | advcl |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tucking | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 case | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 case | det |
| 5 | beaded | bead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 case | amod |
| 6 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Tucking | obl |
| 7 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 case | acl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 belt | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 belt | nmod:poss |
| 10 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hanging | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tucking | punct |
| 12 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 stood | nsubj |
| 13 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | erect | erect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stood | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looking | punct |
| 16 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 stood | advcl |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 looking | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tuck | gerund | Iktomi not said here | knife | a beaded case | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme in case=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | bead | participle | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 3 | hang | gerund | a beaded case not said here | Iktomi's belt | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | Iktomi | erect property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | look | gerund | Iktomi not said here | about property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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