Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 81

Iktomi put his hand over his mouth as he threw his head far backward, laughing at both the bird and man.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: put, throw, laugh · To what, where: hand, mouth, head

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), 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	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 put	nsubj
2	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hand	nmod:poss
4	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obj
5	over	over	ADP	_	7 mouth	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouth	nmod:poss
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 put	obl
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	10 threw	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 threw	nsubj
10	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 put	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 head	nmod:poss
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 threw	obj
13	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 backward	advmod
14	backward	backward	ADV	_	10 threw	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 laughing	punct
16	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 threw	advcl
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 bird	case
18	both	both	CCONJ	_	20 bird	cc:preconj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 bird	det
20	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 laughing	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 man	cc
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bird	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	Iktomi	Iktomi's hand	Iktomi's mouth		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme over mouth=Destination
2	throw	past	Iktomi	Iktomi's head		backward property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	laugh	gerund	Iktomi not said here			at the bird and man	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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