Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 110
Again stooping over the arrow Iktomi continued his repetition of charm words.
Who acts: Iktomi, charm words · What happens: stoop, continue, repeat · To what, where: arrow, repetition
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iktomi, charm words), 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 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 2 stooping | advmod |
| 2 | stooping | stoop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 continued | advcl |
| 3 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 arrow | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 arrow | det |
| 5 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stooping | obl |
| 6 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 continued | nsubj |
| 7 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 repetition | nmod:poss |
| 9 | repetition | repetition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 continued | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 words | case |
| 11 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 words | compound |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 repetition | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stoop | gerund | Iktomi not said here | the arrow | again | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over arrow=Location | |||
| 2 | continue | past | Iktomi | Iktomi's repetition of charm words | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent repetition=Theme | ||||
| 3 | repeat | charm words | nom repetition «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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