Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 53
“Ah, has he gone so fast ahead that the disturbed grasses in his trail have quieted again?” exclaimed Iktomi.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: go, disturb, quiet, exclaim · To what, where: disturbed grasses · 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 gone | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 has | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 fast | advmod |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 ahead | advmod |
| 9 | ahead | ahead | ADV | _ | 6 gone | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 quieted | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 grasses | det |
| 12 | disturbed | disturb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 grasses | amod |
| 13 | grasses | grass | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 quieted | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 trail | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 trail | nmod:poss |
| 16 | trail | trail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 grasses | nmod |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 quieted | aux |
| 18 | quieted | quiet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 exclaimed | advcl |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 quieted | advmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 quieted | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 quieted | punct |
| 22 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | conj |
| 23 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 exclaimed | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 gone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · perfect | Iktomi | ahead property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | disturb in a quote | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | quiet in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the disturbed grasses in Iktomi's trail | again | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | exclaim speech: express | past | Iktomi | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
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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