Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 20
See! there in his paw is caught a fresh feather.
Who acts: you · What happens: see, catch · To what, where: paw
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 (you), 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 | See | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
| 3 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 See | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 caught | mark |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 paw | nmod:poss |
| 6 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 caught | aux:pass |
| 8 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 See | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 feather | det |
| 10 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 feather | amod |
| 11 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 caught | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | imperative | you not said here | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | catch | present · passive | Iktomi's paw | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary feather=Theme |
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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