Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 28

Springing to his feet, Iktomi began at once to tighten the belt about his waist.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: spring, begin, tighten · To what, where: feet, belt

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), 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	Springing	spring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 began	advcl
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 feet	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 feet	nmod:poss
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Springing	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Springing	punct
6	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 once	case
9	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	7 began	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 tighten	mark
11	tighten	tighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 belt	det
13	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tighten	obj
14	about	about	ADP	_	16 waist	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 waist	nmod:poss
16	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 belt	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spring	gerund	Iktomi not said here		Iktomi's feet		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to foot=Destination
2	begin	past	Iktomi				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	tighten	to-infinitive	Iktomi not said here	the belt		about Iktomi's waist	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent belt=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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