Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 20

Complaining of fatigue, he covered his face with his blanket and soon within the chieftain's teepee he lay fast asleep.

Who acts: stranger, teepee · What happens: complain, cover, lie · To what, where: face

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Shooting of the Red Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stranger, teepee), 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	Complaining	complain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 covered	advcl
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 fatigue	case
3	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Complaining	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Complaining	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 covered	nsubj
6	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 face	nmod:poss
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 covered	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 blanket	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 blanket	nmod:poss
11	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 covered	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lay	cc
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 teepee	advmod
14	within	within	ADP	_	18 teepee	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 chieftain	det
16	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 teepee	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 chieftain	case
18	teepee	teepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lay	nsubj
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lay	nsubj
20	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 covered	conj
21	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 lay	advmod
22	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lay	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	complain speech: other	gerund	stranger not said here		of fatigue	vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cover	past	stranger	stranger's face	with stranger's blanket	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Destination with blanket=Theme
3	lie	past	the chieftain's teepee		asleep, fast property	vn assuming_position-50 «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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