Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 22
Taking hold of the paw with the bird feather fast on it, he exclaimed, “Why, he is still warm!
Who acts: paw · What happens: take, exclaim, be, hold · To what, where: hold, feather, paw · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (paw), 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 | Taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 exclaimed | advcl |
| 2 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 paw | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 paw | det |
| 5 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hold | nmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 feather | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 feather | det |
| 8 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 feather | compound |
| 9 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taking | obl |
| 10 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Taking | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Taking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taking | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 15 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Why | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Why | punct |
| 18 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 exclaimed | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 warm | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 warm | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 warm | cop |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 warm | advmod |
| 23 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 exclaimed | conj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | paw not said here | hold of the paw | feather | with the bird feather; fast property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme on it=Destination | ||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | paw | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | paw | still | warm property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | hold | the paw | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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