Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 52
But the chilly night wind quite froze his ardent thank-offering.
Who acts: chilly night wind, wind · What happens: freeze, offer · To what, where: ardent thank offering
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 (chilly night wind, wind), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 froze | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wind | det |
| 3 | chilly | chilly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wind | amod |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wind | compound |
| 5 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 froze | nsubj |
| 6 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 7 froze | advmod |
| 7 | froze | freeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 offering | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ardent | ardent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 offering | amod |
| 10 | thank | thank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 offering | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 thank | punct |
| 12 | offering | offering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 froze | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 froze | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | freeze | past | the chilly night wind | wind's ardent thank offering | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient offering=Result | ||||
| 2 | offer | wind | nom offering «communication transitive»: poss=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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