Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 1

BESIDE a white lake, beneath a large grown willow tree, sat Iktomi on the bare ground.

What happens: grow, sit · To what, where: Iktomi, white lake

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Muskrat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	BESIDE	beside	ADP	_	4 lake	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lake	det
3	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lake	amod
4	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 tree	punct
6	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	11 tree	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tree	det
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tree	amod
9	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 tree	amod
10	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tree	compound
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lake	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lake	punct
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obj
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 ground	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ground	det
17	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 ground	amod
18	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sat	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	participle							vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	past		Iktomi		a white lake and a large grown willow tree		on the bare ground	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent iktomi=Theme beside lake=Location

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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