Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 27
He blinked his eyes hard to keep out the salty perspiration streaming down his face.
Who acts: Iktomi, salty perspiration · What happens: blink, keep out, stream down · To what, where: eyes, salty perspiration, face
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, salty perspiration), 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 blinked | nsubj |
| 2 | blinked | blink | 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 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 blinked | obj |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 blinked | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 keep | mark |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 blinked | advcl |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 keep | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 perspiration | det |
| 10 | salty | salty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 perspiration | amod |
| 11 | perspiration | perspiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obj |
| 12 | streaming | stream | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 perspiration | acl |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 streaming | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 face | nmod:poss |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 streaming | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blinked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blink | past | Iktomi | Iktomi's eyes | hard property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | keep out | to-infinitive | Iktomi not said here | the salty perspiration | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perspiration=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stream down | gerund | the salty perspiration not said here | Iktomi's face | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location face=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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