Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 56
Off with a springing bound, he ran swiftly toward the goal.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: spring, run · To what, where: goal
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 | Off | off | ADV | _ | 8 ran | advmod |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 bound | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bound | det |
| 4 | springing | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 bound | amod |
| 5 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Off | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Off | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ran | nsubj |
| 8 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 8 ran | advmod |
| 10 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 12 goal | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 goal | det |
| 12 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ran | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | gerund | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | run | past | Iktomi | the goal | off, swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward goal=Trajectory |
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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