Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 11

A sleek gray-faced prairie wolf! his pointed black nose tucked in between his four feet drawn snugly together; his handsome bushy tail wound over his nose and feet; a coyote fast asleep in the shadow of a bunch of grass!--this is what Iktomi spied.

Who acts: sleek faced prairie wolf, Iktomi · What happens: tuck, draw, be, spy, wound, shadow · To what, where: pointed black nose, four feet, nose, bunch

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 (sleek faced prairie wolf, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
2	sleek	sleek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wolf	amod
3	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 faced	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 gray	punct
5	faced	faced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wolf	amod
6	prairie	prairie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wolf	compound
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 what	nsubj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 nose	punct
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 nose	nmod:poss
10	pointed	pointed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nose	amod
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 nose	amod
12	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wolf	conj
13	tucked	tuck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 nose	acl
14	in	in	ADP	_	18 feet	case
15	between	between	ADP	_	18 feet	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 feet	nmod:poss
17	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 feet	nummod
18	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 tucked	obl
19	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 feet	acl
20	snugly	snugly	ADV	_	19 drawn	advmod
21	together	together	ADV	_	19 drawn	advmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 wound	punct
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 wound	nmod:poss
24	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wound	amod
25	bushy	bushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 wound	amod
26	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wound	compound
27	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wolf	conj
28	over	over	ADP	_	30 nose	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 nose	nmod:poss
30	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wound	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 feet	cc
32	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 nose	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 asleep	punct
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 coyote	det
35	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 asleep	nsubj
36	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 asleep	advmod
37	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wolf	parataxis
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 shadow	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 shadow	det
40	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 asleep	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 bunch	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 bunch	det
43	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 shadow	nmod
44	of	of	ADP	_	45 grass	case
45	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 bunch	nmod
46	!	!	PUNCT	_	37 asleep	punct
47	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 wolf	punct
48	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 what	nsubj
49	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 what	cop
50	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
51	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 spied	nsubj
52	spied	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 what	acl:relcl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	50 what	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	tuck	participle		Iktomi's pointed black nose not said here	Iktomi's four feet		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in foot=Trajectory
2	draw	participle		Iktomi's four feet not said here		snugly, together property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	a sleek faced prairie wolf and Iktomi's pointed black nose and Iktomi's handsome bushy tail wound over Iktomi's nose and feet				tree rules
4	spy	past	Iktomi				vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
5	wound		Iktomi		Iktomi's nose and feet		nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent over=place
6	shadow			a bunch of grass			nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient

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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