Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 8

From shoulder to shoulder he tilted his head.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: tilt · To what, where: head, shoulder

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	From	from	ADP	_	2 shoulder	case
2	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tilted	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 shoulder	case
4	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 shoulder	nmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tilted	nsubj
6	tilted	tilt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 head	nmod:poss
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tilted	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 tilted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tilt	past	Iktomi	Iktomi's head		shoulder to shoulder			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=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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