Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 29
Then Iktomi, happy with the smile of the sunset sky, followed a footpath leading toward a thicketed ravine.
Who acts: Iktomi, footpath · What happens: follow, lead, smile · To what, where: footpath, thicketed ravine, sunset sky
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, footpath), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Iktomi | advmod |
| 2 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 happy | punct |
| 4 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Iktomi | amod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 smile | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 smile | det |
| 7 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 happy | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sky | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sky | det |
| 10 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sky | compound |
| 11 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 smile | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Iktomi | punct |
| 13 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 footpath | det |
| 15 | footpath | footpath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 followed | obj |
| 16 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 footpath | acl |
| 17 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 20 ravine | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 ravine | det |
| 19 | thicketed | thicketed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ravine | amod |
| 20 | ravine | ravine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 leading | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | Iktomi | a footpath | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footpath=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lead | gerund | a footpath not said here | a thicketed ravine | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent toward ravine=Destination | ||||
| 3 | smile | the sunset sky | nom smile «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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