Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 13

“Yes! yes!” shouted Iktomi, jumping up and down, patting his lips with his palm, which caused his voice to vibrate in a peculiar fashion.

Who acts: Iktomi, palm, voice · What happens: shout, jump up, pat, cause, vibrate · To what, where: lips, voice, peculiar fashion

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 (Iktomi, palm, voice), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 shouted	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 shouted	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	2 Yes	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
7	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 shouted	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 jumping	punct
10	jumping	jump	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 shouted	advcl
11	up	up	ADV	_	10 jumping	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 down	cc
13	down	down	ADV	_	11 up	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 patting	punct
15	patting	pat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 jumping	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 lips	nmod:poss
17	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 patting	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 palm	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 palm	nmod:poss
20	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 patting	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 caused	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 caused	nsubj
23	caused	cause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 palm	acl:relcl
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 voice	nmod:poss
25	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 caused	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 vibrate	mark
27	vibrate	vibrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 caused	xcomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 fashion	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 fashion	det
30	peculiar	peculiar	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fashion	compound
31	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 vibrate	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 shouted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past	Iktomi				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	jump up	gerund	Iktomi not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pat	gerund	Iktomi not said here	Iktomi's lips		with Iktomi's palm	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent lip=Experiencer with palm=Instrument
4	cause	past	Iktomi's palm	Iktomi's voice			tree rules
5	vibrate	to-infinitive	Iktomi's voice not said here		a peculiar fashion		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fashion=Location

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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