Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 53

Thus running up the hillside, his teeth chattering all the way, he drew near to Inyan, the sacred symbol.

Who acts: wind, teeth · What happens: run up, chatter, draw · To what, where: hillside, way, Inyan

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 (wind, teeth), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 running	advmod
2	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 drew	advcl
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 running	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hillside	det
5	hillside	hillside	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 running	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 teeth	punct
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 teeth	nmod:poss
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hillside	appos
9	chattering	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 teeth	acl
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 way	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chattering	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 running	punct
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 drew	nsubj
15	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	near	near	ADV	_	15 drew	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 Inyan	case
18	Inyan	Inyan	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 drew	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 symbol	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 symbol	det
21	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 symbol	amod
22	symbol	symbol	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Inyan	appos
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 drew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	run up	gerund	wind not said here	the hillside		thus property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hillside=Trajectory
2	chatter	gerund	wind's teeth not said here	all way			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	draw	past	wind		Inyan	near property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to inyan=Destination

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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