Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 15
Now Iktomi stood beside it, looking at the closed eyelids that did not quiver the least bit.
Who acts: Iktomi, closed eyelids · What happens: stand, look, close, not quiver · To what, where: ball, least bit
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Coyote. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iktomi, closed eyelids), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stood | advmod |
| 2 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 stood | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 looking | punct |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 stood | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 eyelids | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 eyelids | det |
| 10 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 eyelids | amod |
| 11 | eyelids | eyelid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 looking | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 quiver | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 quiver | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 quiver | advmod |
| 15 | quiver | quiver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 eyelids | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bit | det |
| 17 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 bit | amod |
| 18 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 quiver | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Iktomi | ball | now | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside it=Location | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | Iktomi not said here | at the closed eyelids | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at eyelid=Theme | ||||
| 3 | close | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | not quiver | past · do-support | the closed eyelids | the least bit | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bit=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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