Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 72

“I will go that way,” said Iktomi, looking at the concave within arm's reach.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: go, say, look · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here

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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 way	det
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 looking	punct
12	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 said	advcl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 concave	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 concave	det
15	concave	concave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 looking	obl
16	within	within	ADP	_	19 reach	case
17	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reach	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 arm	case
19	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 looking	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go in a quote	future	Iktomi	that way		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Iktomi			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	look	gerund	Iktomi not said here		within arm's reach; at the concave	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at concave=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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