Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 138
Away bounded the wolves toward Iktomi's lodge.
What happens: bound · To what, where: wolves
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 | Away | away | ADV | _ | 2 bounded | advmod |
| 2 | bounded | bound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wolves | det |
| 4 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bounded | obj |
| 5 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 8 lodge | case |
| 6 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lodge | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 Iktomi | case |
| 8 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wolves | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bound | past | the wolves | toward Iktomi's lodge; away property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wolf=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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