Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 77
The Iktomi children hurried away from the creek, crying and calling for their water-dead father.
Who acts: Iktomi children · What happens: hurry away, cry, call · 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 children), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 children | det |
| 2 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 children | compound |
| 3 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hurried | nsubj |
| 4 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 hurried | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 creek | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 creek | det |
| 8 | creek | creek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hurried | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 crying | punct |
| 10 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 hurried | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 calling | cc |
| 12 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 crying | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 father | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dead | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 water | punct |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 father | amod |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 calling | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry away | past | the Iktomi children | the creek | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from creek=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | the Iktomi children not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | call | gerund | the Iktomi children not said here | for children's dead father | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for father=Recipient |
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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