Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 12
Carefully he raised one foot and cautiously reached out with his toes.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: raise, reach out · To what, where: one foot
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 | Carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 3 raised | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 raised | nsubj |
| 3 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 foot | nummod |
| 5 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 raised | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 reached | cc |
| 7 | cautiously | cautiously | ADV | _ | 8 reached | advmod |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 raised | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 reached | compound:prt |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 toes | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 toes | nmod:poss |
| 12 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reached | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | Iktomi | one foot | carefully property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | |||
| 2 | reach out | participle | Iktomi not said here | with Iktomi's toes; cautiously property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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