Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 9
At once he hurried forth from his teepee and, with his blanket over one shoulder, drew nigh to a huge rock on a hillside.
Who acts: Inyan, blanket · What happens: hurry, draw · To what, where: teepee, hillside
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 (Inyan, blanket), 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 once | case |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 hurried | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hurried | nsubj |
| 4 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 hurried | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 teepee | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 teepee | nmod:poss |
| 8 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hurried | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 drew | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blanket | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 blanket | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 13 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drew | nsubj |
| 14 | over | over | ADP | _ | 16 shoulder | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 shoulder | nummod |
| 16 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 blanket | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blanket | punct |
| 18 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hurried | conj |
| 19 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 18 drew | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 rock | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 rock | det |
| 22 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rock | amod |
| 23 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drew | obl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 hillside | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 hillside | det |
| 26 | hillside | hillside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 drew | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past | Inyan | Inyan's teepee | forth property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | draw | past | Inyan's blanket over one shoulder | a hillside | to a huge rock; nigh property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on hillside=Destination |
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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