Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 39
In the midst of his new pleasure the swaying motion ceased.
Who acts: tissue · What happens: sway, cease, please · To what, where: swaying motion, midst
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 (tissue), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 midst | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 midst | det |
| 3 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ceased | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 pleasure | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 6 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pleasure | amod |
| 7 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 midst | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 motion | det |
| 9 | swaying | sway | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 motion | amod |
| 10 | motion | motion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ceased | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sway | gerund | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | cease | participle · passive | the swaying motion | the midst of tissue's new pleasure | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | please | tissue | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=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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