Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 79

Iktomi almost choked to death before he could get it out.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: choke, get out · To what, where: bone

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	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 choked	nsubj
2	almost	almost	ADV	_	3 choked	advmod
3	choked	choke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 death	case
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 choked	obl
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	9 get	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 get	aux
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 choked	advcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 get	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	9 get	compound:prt
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 choked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	choke	past	Iktomi					to death result; almost property	vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to death=Result
2	get out	could	Iktomi	bone					tree rules

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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