Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 59
Drawing the blanket tight over his shoulders, he descended the hill with hurrying feet.
Who acts: blanket · What happens: draw, descend, hurry · To what, where: blanket, shoulders, hill
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 (blanket), 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 | Drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 descended | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 blanket | det |
| 3 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Drawing | obj |
| 4 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 1 Drawing | advmod |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 shoulders | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 7 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Drawing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Drawing | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 descended | nsubj |
| 10 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hill | det |
| 12 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 descended | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 feet | case |
| 14 | hurrying | hurry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 feet | amod |
| 15 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hill | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 descended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | gerund | blanket not said here | the blanket | blanket's shoulders | tight property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanket=Theme | ||
| 2 | descend | past | blanket | the hill | with hurrying feet | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hill=Theme | |||
| 3 | hurry | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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