Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 5
He was cuddling the evil memory he bore those hungry wolves.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: cuddle, bear · To what, where: evil memory, hungry wolves
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cuddling | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cuddling | aux |
| 3 | cuddling | cuddle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 memory | det |
| 5 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 memory | amod |
| 6 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cuddling | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bore | nsubj |
| 8 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 memory | acl:relcl |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 wolves | det |
| 10 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wolves | amod |
| 11 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 bore | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cuddling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cuddle | past · progressive | Iktomi | the evil memory | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent memory=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | bear | past | Iktomi | that hungry wolves | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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