Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 5

At last returning homeward, tired and heavy-hearted that he had no meat for the hungry mouths in his wigwam, he walked slowly with downcast eyes.

Who acts: tired, Patkasa · What happens: return, heart, have, walk · To what, where: last returning homeward, meat, wigwam

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Turtle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tired, Patkasa), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 homeward	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 homeward	amod
3	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 homeward	amod
4	homeward	homeward	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hearted	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tired	punct
6	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 hearted	nsubj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 heavy	cc
8	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tired	conj
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 heavy	punct
10	hearted	heart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hearted	ccomp
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 meat	det
15	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	19 mouths	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 mouths	det
18	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 mouths	amod
19	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 meat	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 wigwam	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wigwam	nmod:poss
22	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 walked	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 walked	nsubj
25	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 hearted	conj
26	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	25 walked	advmod
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 eyes	case
28	downcast	downcast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 eyes	amod
29	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 walked	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 hearted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	gerund					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	heart	past	tired		last returning homeward		tree rules
3	have	past	Patkasa	no meat	Patkasa's wigwam	for the hungry mouths	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
4	walk	past	Patkasa			with downcast eyes; slowly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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