Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 69

It was dim in that straw hut, for Iktomi had not forgot to cover up the small entrance way.

Who acts: circle, Iktomi · What happens: be, have, not forget, cover up · To what, where: straw hut, small entrance way

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 (circle, 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dim	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dim	cop
3	dim	dim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 hut	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 hut	det
6	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hut	compound
7	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dim	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 had	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 had	case
10	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dim	parataxis
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 forgot	advmod
13	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 had	advcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 cover	mark
15	cover	cover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 forgot	xcomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 cover	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 way	det
18	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 way	amod
19	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 way	compound
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cover	obl:unmarked
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dim	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	circle		that straw hut	dim property	tree rules
2	have	past	Iktomi				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	not forget	past	Iktomi not said here				tree rules
4	cover up	to-infinitive	Iktomi not said here	the small entrance way			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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