Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 103

My old self!” cried Iktomi, pinching himself and plucking imaginary pieces out of his jacket.

Who acts: old self · What happens: cry, pinch, pluck · To what, where: self, imaginary pieces, jacket

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Fawn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old self), 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	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 self	nmod:poss
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 self	amod
3	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 self	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 self	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 pinching	punct
9	pinching	pinch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 cried	advcl
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 pinching	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 plucking	cc
12	plucking	pluck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 pinching	conj
13	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pieces	amod
14	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 plucking	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 jacket	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 jacket	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 jacket	nmod:poss
18	jacket	jacket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 plucking	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cry speech: express in a quote	past	My old self			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pinch in a quote	gerund	My old self not said here	self		vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
3	pluck in a quote	gerund	My old self not said here	imaginary pieces	self's jacket	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent piece=Theme out jacket=Source

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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