Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 103

By some unknown cunning he swam the river and sought his way toward the teepees.

Who acts: sun · What happens: swim, seek · To what, where: river, way

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iya, the Camp-eater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun), 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	By	by	ADP	_	4 cunning	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 cunning	det
3	unknown	unknown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cunning	amod
4	cunning	cunning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swam	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 swam	nsubj
6	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swam	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sought	cc
10	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 swam	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 way	nmod:poss
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sought	obj
13	toward	toward	ADP	_	15 teepees	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 teepees	det
15	teepees	teepee	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sought	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	sun	the river				by some unknown cunning	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme river=Trajectory
2	seek	past	sun not said here	sun's way				toward the teepees	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=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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