Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 27

Soon he came to the edge of the great level land.

Who acts: IKTOMI · What happens: come · To what, where: edge

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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 came	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 edge	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 edge	det
6	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 land	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 land	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 land	amod
10	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 land	compound
11	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 edge	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	IKTOMI			the edge of the great level land		soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to edge=Initial_Location

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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