Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 68
He has laughed at me for carrying a weight on my back while he shot hither like an arrow!”
Who acts: man · What happens: laugh, carry, shoot · To what, where: weight, back
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 (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | aux |
| 3 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 laughed | obl |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 carrying | mark |
| 7 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 laughed | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 weight | det |
| 9 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carrying | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 back | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 back | nmod:poss |
| 12 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carrying | obl |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 shot | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shot | nsubj |
| 15 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 laughed | advcl |
| 16 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 15 shot | advmod |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 arrow | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 arrow | det |
| 19 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shot | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present · perfect | man | at me | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | man not said here | a weight | my back | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme | |||
| 3 | shoot | past | man | like a arrow; hither property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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