Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 44

I wish I had my blanket!” whispered he, hovering over the pile of dry sticks and the sharp stakes round about it.

Who acts: I, sharp · What happens: wish, have, whisper, hover, stake · To what, where: blanket, pile · 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 (I, sharp), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wish	nsubj
2	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wish	ccomp
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 blanket	nmod:poss
6	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 whispered	punct
9	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wish	parataxis
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 whispered	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hovering	punct
12	hovering	hover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 whispered	advcl
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 pile	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 pile	det
15	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hovering	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 sticks	case
17	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sticks	amod
18	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pile	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stakes	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sharp	det
21	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 stakes	nsubj
22	stakes	stake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hovering	conj
23	round	round	ADV	_	22 stakes	advmod
24	about	about	ADP	_	25 it	case
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 stakes	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	have	past	I	my blanket			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanket=Patient
3	whisper speech: assert in a quote	past		blanket			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
4	hover in a quote	gerund			the pile of dry sticks		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over pile=Location
5	stake in a quote	present	the sharp			about pile; round property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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