Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 62
In this pale light Iktomi stood motionless as a ghost amid the thicket.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: stand · To what, where: thicket, pale light
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 light | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 light | det |
| 3 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 light | amod |
| 4 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 5 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | nsubj |
| 6 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | motionless | motionless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stood | xcomp |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 amid | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 amid | det |
| 10 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 amid | compound |
| 11 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thicket | det |
| 13 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stood | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Iktomi | the thicket | this pale light | as a ghost amid; motionless property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in light=Location |
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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