Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 16
Pressing his lips into straight lines and nodding his head slowly, he bent over the wolf.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: press, nod, bend · To what, where: lips, straight lines, head, wolf
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), 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 | Pressing | press | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 bent | advcl |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lips | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pressing | obj |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 lines | case |
| 5 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lines | amod |
| 6 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pressing | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 nodding | cc |
| 8 | nodding | nod | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Pressing | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 nodding | obj |
| 11 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 8 nodding | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pressing | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 bent | nsubj |
| 14 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 wolf | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wolf | det |
| 17 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bent | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | press | gerund | Iktomi not said here | Iktomi's lips | straight lines | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Theme | |||
| 2 | nod | gerund | Iktomi not said here | Iktomi's head | slowly property | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 3 | bend | past | Iktomi | the wolf | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over wolf=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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