Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 41
Pulling it out upon dry land, he wrapped it in his blanket.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: pull out, wrap · To what, where: half, blanket
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 | Pulling | pull | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 wrapped | advcl |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Pulling | obj |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 1 Pulling | compound:prt |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 5 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 land | amod |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Pulling | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pulling | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wrapped | nsubj |
| 9 | wrapped | wrap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wrapped | obj |
| 11 | in | in | 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 | 9 wrapped | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wrapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | gerund | Iktomi not said here | half | upon dry land | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wrap | past | Iktomi | half | Iktomi's blanket | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in blanket=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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