Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 76
Those tears no longer moved the hand of the Generous Giver.
Who acts: tears · What happens: move · To what, where: hand
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 (tears), 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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 tears | det |
| 2 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 moved | nsubj |
| 3 | no | no | ADV | _ | 4 longer | advmod |
| 4 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 moved | advmod |
| 5 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hand | det |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moved | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Giver | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Giver | det |
| 10 | Generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Giver | amod |
| 11 | Giver | Giver | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hand | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | that tears | the hand of the Generous Giver | long property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme hand=Result |
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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