Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 48
Perspiration hung like beads on his brow.
What happens: hang · To what, where: Perspiration, brow
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: 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 | Perspiration | perspiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Perspiration | acl |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 beads | case |
| 4 | beads | bead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hung | obl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 brow | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 brow | nmod:poss |
| 7 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hung | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Perspiration | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | participle | Perspiration not said here | Iktomi's brow | like beads | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on brow=Location |
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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