Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 52
Yet as he scanned the tall grasses on the lake shore, he saw not one stir as if to make way for the runner.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: scan, not see, make · To what, where: tall grasses, lake shore, one stir, way
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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 scanned | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 scanned | nsubj |
| 4 | scanned | scan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 saw | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grasses | det |
| 6 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grasses | amod |
| 7 | grasses | grass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 scanned | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 shore | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shore | det |
| 10 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shore | compound |
| 11 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scanned | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 scanned | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 saw | advmod |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 stir | nummod |
| 17 | stir | stir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 saw | ccomp |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 runner | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 runner | det |
| 25 | runner | runner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scan | past | Iktomi | the tall grasses | the lake shore | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Theme | |||
| 2 | not see | past | Iktomi | one stir | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make a condition, not said to happen | to-infinitive | way | for the runner | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent way=Product for runner=Asset |
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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