Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 35
He watched the wily Iktomi concocting a plot.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: watch, concoct · To what, where: wily Iktomi, plot
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 watched | nsubj |
| 2 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Iktomi | det |
| 4 | wily | wily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Iktomi | amod |
| 5 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 watched | obj |
| 6 | concocting | concoct | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 watched | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 plot | det |
| 8 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 concocting | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Iktomi | the wily Iktomi | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iktomi=Theme | ||||
| 2 | concoct | gerund | Iktomi not said here | a plot | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plot=Result |
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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