Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 73
And though he wore a blanket his teeth chattered more than ever.
Who acts: Iktomi, teeth · What happens: wear, chatter · To what, where: blanket
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, teeth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg338:212): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 chattered | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 4 wore | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wore | nsubj |
| 4 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 chattered | advcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 blanket | det |
| 6 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wore | obj |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 chattered | nsubj |
| 9 | chattered | chatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 chattered | advmod |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 ever | case |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 more | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 chattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear | past | Iktomi | a blanket | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent blanket=Source | ||||
| 2 | chatter | past | Iktomi's teeth | vn animal_sounds-38 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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