Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 23

Now, as Iktomi prayed and wept before the great-grandfather, the sky in the west was red like a glowing face.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: pray, weep, red, glow · To what, where: west

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi's Blanket. 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 prayed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 prayed	mark
4	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 prayed	nsubj
5	prayed	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wept	cc
7	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prayed	conj
8	before	before	ADP	_	12 grandfather	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 grandfather	det
10	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 grandfather	amod
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 great	punct
12	grandfather	grandfather	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wept	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sky	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sky	det
15	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 grandfather	conj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 west	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 west	det
18	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 red	obl
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 red	aux:pass
20	red	red	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wept	conj
21	like	like	ADP	_	24 face	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 face	det
23	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 face	amod
24	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 red	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 prayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	pray	past	Iktomi		now		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	weep	past	Iktomi not said here		before the great grandfather and the sky		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	red	past · passive	Iktomi not said here	the west		like a glowing face	tree rules
4	glow	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: 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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