Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 50

He looked across the lake to see how far the muskrat had gone, but nowhere did he see any sign of him.

Who acts: Iktomi, muskrat · What happens: look, see, go, sign · To what, where: sign, fish · Speech: someone speaks here

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, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	across	across	ADP	_	5 lake	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lake	det
5	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 looked	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 looked	advcl
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 far	advmod
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 gone	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 muskrat	det
11	muskrat	muskrat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 gone	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	aux
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 see	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 see	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 see	cc
16	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	PronType=Neg	19 see	advmod
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 see	aux
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 see	nsubj
19	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 looked	conj
20	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	21 sign	det
21	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 see	obj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sign	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	Iktomi		across the lake	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent across lake=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive	Iktomi not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	go	past · perfect	the muskrat		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	past · do-support	Iktomi	any sign of fish	nowhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus
5	sign			fish		nom sign «communication 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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