Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 39
When they reached the opposite side Iktomi pried about in search of a heavy stone.
Who acts: lake, Iktomi · What happens: reach, pry, search · To what, where: opposite side, heavy stone
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 (lake, 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pried | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 side | det |
| 5 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 side | amod |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 7 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 pried | nsubj |
| 8 | pried | pry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 search | case |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 search | case |
| 11 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pried | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 stone | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stone | det |
| 14 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stone | amod |
| 15 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 search | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | lake | the opposite side | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent side=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pry | past | Iktomi | about search of a heavy stone | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about search=Topic | ||||
| 3 | search | a heavy stone | nom search «act 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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