Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 36
Sometimes when children grow drowsy they blink blue winks, while others who are too proud to look with friendly eyes upon people blink in this cold bird-manner.
Who acts: children, others, people · What happens: grow, blink, be, look · To what, where: blue winks, cold bird manner
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 (children, others, people), 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 | Sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 grow | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 grow | advmod |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grow | nsubj |
| 4 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 blink | advcl |
| 5 | drowsy | drowsy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grow | xcomp |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 blink | nsubj |
| 7 | blink | blink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 winks | amod |
| 9 | winks | wink | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 blink | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 proud | punct |
| 11 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 proud | mark |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 proud | nsubj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 proud | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 proud | cop |
| 15 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 proud | advmod |
| 16 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 blink | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 look | mark |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 proud | xcomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 20 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eyes | amod |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 look | obl |
| 22 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 24 blink | mark |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 blink | nsubj |
| 24 | blink | blink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 look | advcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 manner | case |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 manner | nsubj |
| 27 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 manner | amod |
| 28 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 manner | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 bird | punct |
| 30 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 blink | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 blink | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | children | drowsy, sometimes property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blink | present | children = child | blue winks | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wink=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | others | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | others not said here | with friendly eyes | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | blink | present | people | cold bird manner | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Location |
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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