Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 76

With his hands still on his knees, Iktomi turned his face upward into the great willow tree.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: turn · To what, where: face, great willow tree

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	With	with	ADP	_	3 hands	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hands	nmod:poss
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 turned	obl
4	still	still	ADV	_	7 knees	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 knees	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 knees	nmod:poss
7	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hands	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hands	punct
9	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 turned	nsubj
10	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 face	nmod:poss
12	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obj
13	upward	upward	ADV	_	10 turned	advmod
14	into	into	ADP	_	18 tree	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 tree	det
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tree	amod
17	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tree	compound
18	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turned	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Iktomi	Iktomi's face		the great willow tree		with man's hands on man's knees; upward property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent face=Theme into tree=Trajectory

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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