Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 32
For a moment Iktomi stood with a hand on his long protruding chin.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: stand, protrude · To what, where: long protruding chin
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Muskrat. 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 4 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 hand | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 hand | det |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 chin | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 chin | nmod:poss |
| 11 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 chin | amod |
| 12 | protruding | protrude | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 chin | amod |
| 13 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Iktomi | Iktomi's long protruding chin | moment | with a hand | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chin=Location | ||
| 2 | protrude | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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