Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 36
From the bewildered crowd witty old Iktomi came forward.
Who acts: witty old Iktomi · What happens: bewilder, come forward · To what, where: bewildered crowd
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Warlike Seven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witty old 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 crowd | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crowd | det |
| 3 | bewildered | bewilder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 crowd | amod |
| 4 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 5 | witty | witty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Iktomi | amod |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Iktomi | amod |
| 7 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bewilder | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | come forward | past | witty old Iktomi | the bewildered crowd | forward property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from crowd=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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