Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 3
Handsome in the glistening summer sun sat the bird of rainbow plumage.
Who acts: Handsome glistening summer sun · What happens: glisten, sit · To what, where: bird
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 (Handsome glistening summer sun), 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 | Handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sun | amod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 sun | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sun | det |
| 4 | glistening | glisten | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 sun | amod |
| 5 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sun | compound |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | nsubj |
| 7 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bird | det |
| 9 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sat | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 plumage | case |
| 11 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plumage | compound |
| 12 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bird | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glisten | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | sit | past | the Handsome glistening summer sun | the bird of rainbow plumage | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=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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