Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 51

“Well, he is running low under the wild rice!” said he.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: run, say · To what, where: wild rice · 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), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 running	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	6 running	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 running	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 running	aux
6	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 said	ccomp
7	low	low	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 running	advmod
8	under	under	ADP	_	11 rice	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rice	det
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 rice	amod
11	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 running	obl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 running	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 running	punct
14	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 said	nsubj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run in a quote	present · progressive	Iktomi			the wild rice		low property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under rice=Trajectory
2	say speech: express	past	Iktomi						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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