Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 100

Having reached his own teepee on the high level lands, Iktomi kindled a large fire out of doors.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: have, reach, kindle · To what, where: own teepee, high level lands, large fire, doors

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Ducks. 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	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 reached	reparandum
2	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 teepee	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 teepee	amod
5	teepee	teepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 reached	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 lands	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lands	det
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lands	amod
9	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lands	compound
10	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 reached	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kindled	punct
12	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 kindled	nsubj
13	kindled	kindle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 reached	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fire	det
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fire	amod
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kindled	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	19 doors	case
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 doors	case
19	doors	door	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 kindled	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	gerund				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	reach	past		Homeward's own teepee	the high level lands	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent teepee=Theme
3	kindle	past	Iktomi	a large fire	doors	vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=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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