Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 75
Hereupon the slender arrow tapped him gently with his sharp flint beak.
Who acts: Hereupon · What happens: tap · To what, where: Iktomi
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 (Hereupon), 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 | Hereupon | Hereupon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tapped | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 arrow | det |
| 3 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 arrow | amod |
| 4 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tapped | nsubj |
| 5 | tapped | tap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tapped | obj |
| 7 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 5 tapped | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 beak | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 beak | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beak | amod |
| 11 | flint | flint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beak | compound |
| 12 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tapped | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tap | past | Hereupon | Iktomi | with Iktomi's sharp flint beak; gently property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with beak=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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