Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 2

Here and there over the rolling green were tall bunches of coarse gray weeds.

Who acts: rolling green · What happens: roll, be · To what, where: tall bunches

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 (rolling green), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 there	cc
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 Here	conj
4	over	over	ADP	_	10 bunches	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 green	det
6	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 green	amod
7	green	green	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bunches	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 bunches	cop
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bunches	amod
10	bunches	bunch	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Here	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 weeds	case
12	coarse	coarse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 weeds	amod
13	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 weeds	compound
14	weeds	weed	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bunches	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll	gerund							vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the rolling green			tall bunches		of coarse gray weeds	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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