Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 61

A young moon, like a bright bent bow, climbed up from the southwest horizon a little way into the sky.

Who acts: young moon · What happens: climb up · To what, where: little way, southwest horizon

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 (young moon), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moon	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moon	amod
3	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 climbed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 bow	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	9 bow	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bow	det
7	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bow	amod
8	bent	bent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bow	amod
9	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moon	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 moon	punct
11	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	up	up	ADV	_	11 climbed	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	16 horizon	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 horizon	det
15	southwest	southwest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 horizon	compound
16	horizon	horizon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 climbed	obl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 way	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 climbed	obl:unmarked
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 sky	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sky	det
22	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 climbed	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb up	past	a young moon	a little way		the southwest horizon		into the sky	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from horizon=Initial_Location into sky=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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