Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 125

There in a strong wooden hand Iktomi's foot was caught.

What happens: catch · To what, where: foot, strong wooden hand

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: 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 caught	expl
2	in	in	ADP	_	6 hand	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hand	det
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hand	amod
5	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hand	amod
6	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 caught	obl
7	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 foot	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Iktomi	case
9	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 caught	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 caught	aux:pass
11	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 caught	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · passive		Iktomi's foot		a strong wooden hand; there			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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