Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 32
He lay there lazily on Iktomi's shoulders, now and then blinking blue winks.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: lie, blink · To what, where: shoulders, blue winks
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 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 lay | advmod |
| 4 | lazily | lazily | ADV | _ | 2 lay | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 shoulders | case |
| 6 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Iktomi | case |
| 8 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lay | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 now | punct |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 lay | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 blinking | cc |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 blinking | advmod |
| 13 | blinking | blink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 lay | conj |
| 14 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 winks | amod |
| 15 | winks | wink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 blinking | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Iktomi | Iktomi's shoulders; there | now | lazily property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on shoulder=Location | ||
| 2 | blink | gerund | Iktomi not said here | blue winks | then | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wink=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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