Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 62

Thus saying Iktomi plunged into the creek.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: say, plunge · To what, where: creek · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 saying	advmod
2	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 plunged	nsubj
4	plunged	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saying	ccomp
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 creek	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 creek	det
7	creek	creek	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 plunged	obl
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund						thus property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	plunge	past	Iktomi			the creek			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into creek=Initial_Location

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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