Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 61
His black eyes showed a ring of white about them as he stared at the empty ground.
Who acts: black eyes, Iktomi · What happens: show, stare · To what, where: ring
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 (black eyes, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eyes | amod |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 showed | nsubj |
| 4 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 ring | det |
| 6 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 showed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 white | case |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 ring | nmod |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 white | obl |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 stared | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 stared | nsubj |
| 13 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 showed | advcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 16 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ground | amod |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stared | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 showed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | past | Iktomi's black eyes | a ring of white | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ring=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | stare | past | Iktomi | at the empty ground | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at ground=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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