Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 14

Iktomi turned and there stood a dripping muskrat who had just come out of the lake.

Who acts: Iktomi, dripping muskrat · What happens: turn, stand, drip, come out · To what, where: dripping muskrat

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: who acts (Iktomi, dripping muskrat), 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	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 stood	cc
4	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 stood	advmod
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 muskrat	det
7	dripping	drip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 muskrat	amod
8	muskrat	muskrat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obj
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 come	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 come	aux
11	just	just	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
12	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 muskrat	acl:relcl
13	out	out	ADV	_	12 come	advmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 lake	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lake	det
16	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 come	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Iktomi				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	stand	past	Iktomi not said here	a dripping muskrat	there		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer muskrat=Stimulus
3	drip	gerund					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
4	come out	past · perfect	a dripping muskrat			of the lake; out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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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