Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 46
Each took a narrow path through the tall reeds fringing the shore.
Who acts: Each, tall reeds · What happens: take, fringe · To what, where: narrow path, tall reeds, shore
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 (Each, tall reeds), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 path | det |
| 4 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 path | amod |
| 5 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 reeds | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 reeds | det |
| 8 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 reeds | amod |
| 9 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 took | obl |
| 10 | fringing | fringe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 reeds | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shore | det |
| 12 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fringing | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Each | a narrow path | the tall reeds | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme | |||
| 2 | fringe | gerund | the tall reeds not said here | the shore | tree rules |
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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