Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 74

Then his blunted sense will surprise you, little reader; for instead of being grieved that he had taken back his blanket, he cried aloud, “Hin-hin-hin!

Who acts: blunted sense, Iktomi · What happens: blunt, surprise, grieve, take back, cry, sense · To what, where: you, blanket, hin hin

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 (blunted sense, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 surprise	advmod
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 sense	nmod:poss
3	blunted	blunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sense	amod
4	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 surprise	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 surprise	aux
6	surprise	surprise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 surprise	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 reader	punct
9	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 reader	amod
10	reader	reader	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 surprise	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 grieved	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 grieved	mark
13	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	16 grieved	mark
14	of	of	ADP	_	13 instead	fixed
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 grieved	aux:pass
16	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 surprise	parataxis
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 taken	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 taken	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 taken	aux
20	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 grieved	advcl
21	back	back	ADV	_	20 taken	advmod
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 blanket	nmod:poss
23	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 taken	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 cried	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 cried	nsubj
26	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 grieved	conj
27	aloud	aloud	ADV	_	26 cried	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hin	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 hin	punct
30	Hin	hin	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hin	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 Hin	punct
32	hin	hin	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hin	compound
33	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 hin	punct
34	hin	hin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 cried	obl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 surprise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	blunt	participle					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	surprise	future	Iktomi's blunted sense	you	then	little reader obl	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
3	grieve	gerund · passive					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	take back	past · perfect	Iktomi	Iktomi's blanket			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanket=Theme
5	cry speech: express	past	Iktomi	hin hin		aloud property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	sense		Iktomi				nom sense «cognition 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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