Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 54
Seizing one corner of the half-worn blanket, Iktomi pulled it off with a jerk.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: seize, pull off · To what, where: one corner, corner
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 | Seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 pulled | advcl |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 corner | nummod |
| 3 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seizing | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 blanket | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 blanket | det |
| 6 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 worn | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 half | punct |
| 8 | worn | worn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 blanket | amod |
| 9 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 corner | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seizing | punct |
| 11 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 pulled | nsubj |
| 12 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pulled | obj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 pulled | compound:prt |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 jerk | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 jerk | det |
| 17 | jerk | jerk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pulled | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | gerund | Iktomi not said here | one corner of the worn blanket | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pull off | past | Iktomi | corner | with a jerk | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
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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