Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 22
Suddenly he rushed out, dragging after him his blanket.
Who acts: IKTOMI · What happens: rush out, drag · To what, where: blanket
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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 rushed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rushed | nsubj |
| 3 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 rushed | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dragging | punct |
| 6 | dragging | drag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rushed | advcl |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dragging | obl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 10 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dragging | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush out | past | IKTOMI | suddenly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drag | gerund | IKTOMI not said here | IKTOMI's blanket | after IKTOMI | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blanket=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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