Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 29
His long white teeth fairly gleamed as he smiled and smiled.
Who acts: long white teeth, Iktomi · What happens: gleam, smile
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 (long white teeth, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 teeth | amod |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 teeth | amod |
| 4 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gleamed | nsubj |
| 5 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 6 gleamed | advmod |
| 6 | gleamed | gleam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 smiled | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 smiled | nsubj |
| 9 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gleamed | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 smiled | cc |
| 11 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 smiled | conj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gleamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gleam | past | Iktomi's long white teeth | fairly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | smile | past | Iktomi | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | smile | past | Iktomi not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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