Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 69
Iktomi wading in the lake had been swallowed like a gnat in the water.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: wade, swallow · To what, where: lake, Iktomi
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 (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 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 swallowed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | wading | wade | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Iktomi | acl |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 lake | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lake | det |
| 5 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wading | obl |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 swallowed | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 8 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 gnat | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 gnat | det |
| 11 | gnat | gnat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swallowed | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gnat | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 swallowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wade | gerund | Iktomi not said here | the lake | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lake=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | swallow | past · perfect · passive | Iktomi | like a gnat in the water | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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