Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 61
Iktomi's eyes were almost ready to jump out of his head as he stood cooling a burn on his brown arm with his breath.
Who acts: eyes, Iktomi · What happens: be, jump out, stand, cool · To what, where: head, burn, brown arm
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 (eyes, 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 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Iktomi | case |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ready | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ready | cop |
| 5 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 6 ready | advmod |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 jump | mark |
| 8 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ready | xcomp |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 head | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jump | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 stood | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 jump | advcl |
| 16 | cooling | cool | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 stood | xcomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 burn | det |
| 18 | burn | burn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cooling | obj |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 arm | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 arm | nmod:poss |
| 21 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 arm | amod |
| 22 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cooling | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 breath | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 breath | nmod:poss |
| 25 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cooling | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Iktomi's eyes | almost, ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | jump out | to-infinitive | Iktomi's eyes not said here | Iktomi's head | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme head=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | Iktomi | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | cool | gerund | Iktomi not said here | a burn | Iktomi's brown arm | with Iktomi's breath | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent burn=Patient with breath=Instrument |
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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