Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 10

Far forward he stooped, stretching his long thin neck like a duck, to see what lay under a fur coat beyond the bunch of coarse grass.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: stoop, stretch, see, lie · To what, where: long thin neck, fur coat · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Coyote. 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	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 forward	advmod
2	forward	forward	ADV	_	4 stooped	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stooped	nsubj
4	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stretching	punct
6	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 stooped	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 neck	nmod:poss
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 neck	amod
9	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 neck	amod
10	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stretching	obj
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 duck	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 duck	det
13	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stretching	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 see	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stretching	conj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 lay	nsubj
18	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 see	ccomp
19	under	under	ADP	_	22 coat	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 coat	det
21	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 coat	compound
22	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	obl
23	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	25 bunch	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bunch	det
25	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lay	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 grass	case
27	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 grass	amod
28	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 bunch	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stooped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stoop	past	Iktomi			forward property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	stretch	gerund	Iktomi not said here	Iktomi's long thin neck		like a duck	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient
3	see	to-infinitive	Iktomi not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	lie	past			a fur coat	beyond the bunch of coarse grass	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under coat=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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