Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 52
Close upon his heels came his children with tear-streaked faces.
What happens: come, streak · To what, where: children
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: 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 | Close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 came | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 heels | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 heels | nmod:poss |
| 4 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | obl |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 children | nmod:poss |
| 7 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 faces | case |
| 9 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 streaked | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 tear | punct |
| 11 | streaked | streak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 faces | amod |
| 12 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Patkasa's children | upon Patkasa's heels; with streaked faces; close property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location child=Theme | ||||
| 2 | streak | participle | vn run-51.3.2 «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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