Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 36
Following a winding footpath near by, came a bent figure of a Dakota brave.
Who acts: bent figure · What happens: follow, wind, come, figure · To what, where: Dakota
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 (bent figure), 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 | Following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 footpath | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 footpath | det |
| 3 | winding | wind | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 footpath | amod |
| 4 | footpath | footpath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 4 footpath | advmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 near | fixed |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 footpath | punct |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 figure | det |
| 10 | bent | bent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 figure | amod |
| 11 | figure | figure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Dakota | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Dakota | det |
| 14 | Dakota | Dakota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 figure | nmod |
| 15 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Dakota | amod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | wind | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | come | past | a bent figure of a Dakota | follow a winding footpath | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | figure | a Dakota | nom figure «communication transitive»: of=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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