Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 69

At length, stooping over the white dried bones, he took hold of one and shook it.

Who acts: length, Iktomi · What happens: stoop, dry, take, shake · To what, where: white dried bones, hold, length

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 (length, 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 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 stooping	punct
4	stooping	stoop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 length	acl
5	over	over	ADP	_	9 bones	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bones	det
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bones	amod
8	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 bones	amod
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stooping	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 took	nsubj
12	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 took	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 one	case
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hold	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 shook	cc
17	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 took	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 shook	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stoop	gerund	length not said here		the white dried bones	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over bone=Location
2	dry	participle				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	take	past	Iktomi	hold of one	length	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent hold=Theme at length=Asset
4	shake	past	Iktomi not said here	hold		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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