Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 62

He paints his round cheeks with bright red, and wears the penciled lines of red over his temples like our men of honored rank.

Who acts: level · What happens: paint, wear, pencil, honor · To what, where: round cheeks, penciled lines, temples

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 (level), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paints	nsubj
2	paints	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 cheeks	nmod:poss
4	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cheeks	amod
5	cheeks	cheek	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 paints	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 red	case
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 red	amod
8	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 paints	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 wears	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 wears	cc
11	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 paints	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 lines	det
13	penciled	pencil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 lines	amod
14	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wears	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 red	case
16	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lines	nmod
17	over	over	ADP	_	19 temples	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 temples	nmod:poss
19	temples	temple	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 wears	obl
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 men	case
21	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 men	nmod:poss
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 temples	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 rank	case
24	honored	honor	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 rank	amod
25	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 men	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 paints	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	paint	present	level	level's round cheeks		with bright red	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent cheek=Destination with red=Theme
2	wear	present	level not said here	the penciled lines of red	level's temples like our men of honored rank		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent line=Source
3	pencil	participle					vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	honor	participle					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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