Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 23

The muskrat began to feel awkward before such lack of hospitality and wished himself under water.

Who acts: muskrat · What happens: begin, feel, wish, lack · To what, where: Iktomi, water, hospitality

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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 muskrat	det
2	muskrat	muskrat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 began	nsubj
3	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 feel	mark
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 began	xcomp
6	awkward	awkward	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feel	xcomp
7	before	before	ADP	_	9 lack	case
8	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 lack	amod
9	lack	lack	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feel	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 hospitality	case
11	hospitality	hospitality	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lack	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 wished	cc
13	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 began	conj
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 wished	obj
15	under	under	ADP	_	16 water	case
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wished	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the muskrat					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	feel	to-infinitive	the muskrat not said here			before such lack of hospitality	awkward property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	wish	past	the muskrat not said here	Iktomi	water			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot himself=Theme
4	lack			hospitality				nom lack «state 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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