Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 7
Well hid between the lake and the wild rice, he looked nowhere save into the pot of fish.
What happens: hide, save · To what, where: lake, Iktomi, pot
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: 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 2 hid | discourse |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 lake | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lake | det |
| 5 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rice | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rice | det |
| 8 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rice | amod |
| 9 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lake | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hid | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 save | nsubj |
| 12 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 save | aux:pass |
| 13 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 save | advmod |
| 14 | save | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hid | parataxis |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 pot | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pot | det |
| 17 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 save | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 fish | case |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pot | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | the lake and the wild rice | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between lake=Location | |||||
| 2 | save | past · passive | Iktomi | the pot of fish | nowhere property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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