Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 70
The bones, loose in their sockets, rattled together at his touch.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: rattle, touch
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bones | det |
| 2 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 loose | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 bones | punct |
| 4 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sockets | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sockets | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sockets | socket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 loose | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 rattled | punct |
| 9 | rattled | rattle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 loose | conj |
| 10 | together | together | ADV | _ | 9 rattled | advmod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 touch | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 touch | nmod:poss |
| 13 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rattled | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 loose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rattle | participle | at Iktomi's touch; together property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at touch=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | touch | Iktomi | nom touch «event transitive»: poss=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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