Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 67
Only the dry rib bones lay on the ground like giant fingers from an open grave.
Who acts: dry rib bones · What happens: lay · To what, where: ground
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 (dry rib bones), 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 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 5 bones | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bones | det |
| 3 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bones | amod |
| 4 | rib | rib | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bones | compound |
| 5 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lay | nsubj |
| 6 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obl |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 fingers | case |
| 11 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 fingers | amod |
| 12 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lay | obl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 grave | case |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 grave | det |
| 15 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 grave | amod |
| 16 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lay | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | the dry rib bones | the ground | like giant fingers; from a open grave | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent from grave=Material |
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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