Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 6

At last he ceased to sway his body backward and forward, but sat still and stiff as a stone image.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: cease, sway, sit · To what, where: last, body

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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ceased	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ceased	nsubj
4	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 sway	mark
6	sway	sway	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 ceased	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 body	nmod:poss
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sway	obj
9	backward	backward	ADV	_	6 sway	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 forward	cc
11	forward	forward	ADV	_	9 backward	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 sat	cc
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ceased	parataxis
15	still	still	ADV	_	14 sat	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 stiff	cc
17	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 sat	conj
18	as	as	ADP	_	21 image	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 image	det
20	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 image	compound
21	image	image	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stiff	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 ceased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cease	past	Iktomi		last			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	sway	to-infinitive	Iktomi not said here	Iktomi's body			backward property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location body=Theme
3	sit	past				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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