Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 17

He held his ear close to the coyote's nose, but not a breath of air stirred from it.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: hold, stir · To what, where: ear, air

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ear	nmod:poss
4	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obj
5	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 held	xcomp
6	to	to	ADP	_	10 nose	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 coyote	det
8	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nose	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 coyote	case
10	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 close	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 breath	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 breath	cc
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 breath	advmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 breath	det
15	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 air	case
17	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 breath	nmod
18	stirred	stir	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 air	acl
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 stirred	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	Iktomi	Iktomi's ear				a breath of air obl; close property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
2	stir	participle		air not said here		air			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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