Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 7

When Patkasa stumbled upon the deer in his path, he exclaimed: “Good spirits have pushed me hither!”

Who acts: Patkasa · What happens: stumble, exclaim, push · To what, where: path, Good spirits · 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 (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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 stumbled	advmod
2	Patkasa	Patkasa	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 stumbled	nsubj
3	stumbled	stumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 exclaimed	advcl
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 deer	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 deer	det
6	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stumbled	obl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 path	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 path	nmod:poss
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stumbled	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stumbled	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 exclaimed	nsubj
12	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 exclaimed	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 pushed	punct
15	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 spirits	amod
16	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 pushed	nsubj:pass
17	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 pushed	aux
18	pushed	push	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 exclaimed	conj
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 pushed	obj
20	hither	hither	ADV	_	18 pushed	advmod
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	18 pushed	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 exclaimed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stumble	past	Patkasa		Patkasa's path	upon the deer	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon deer=Trajectory
2	exclaim speech: express	past	Patkasa				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	push in a quote	present · perfect · passive		Good spirits		hither property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme i=Destination

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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