Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 57

Tufts of reeds and grass fell flat under his feet.

Who acts: Tufts · What happens: fall · To what, where: feet

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 (Tufts), 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	Tufts	tuft	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fell	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 reeds	case
3	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tufts	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 grass	cc
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reeds	conj
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	flat	flat	ADV	_	6 fell	advmod
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 feet	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feet	nmod:poss
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fell	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Tufts of reeds and grass			Iktomi's feet		flat property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under foot=Location

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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