Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 58

He thrust a palm to his face, hard over his mouth!

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: thrust · To what, where: palm, 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), 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 thrust	nsubj
2	thrust	thrust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 palm	det
4	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thrust	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 face	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 face	nmod:poss
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thrust	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 hard	punct
9	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 thrust	advmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 mouth	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mouth	nmod:poss
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hard	obl
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 thrust	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thrust	past	Iktomi	a palm		Iktomi's face		hard property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent palm=Theme to face=Destination

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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