Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 30

He had not gone many paces into the shrubbery when before him lay a freshly wounded deer!

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: not go, lay · To what, where: many paces, shrubbery, wounded deer

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 paces	amod
6	paces	pace	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gone	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 shrubbery	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shrubbery	det
9	shrubbery	shrubbery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 lay	advmod
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lay	obl
13	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 deer	det
15	freshly	freshly	ADV	_	16 wounded	advmod
16	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 deer	amod
17	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lay	obj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	Iktomi	many paces		the shrubbery			tree rules
2	lay	present	Iktomi not said here	a wounded deer			before Iktomi		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent deer=Theme before he=Destination

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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