Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 24

Ah-ha!” he laughed, as he seized the coyote by its two fore paws and its two hind feet and swung him over head across his shoulders.

Who acts: paw · What happens: laugh, seize, swing over · To what, where: coyote, paw, shoulders

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 (paw), 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 laughed	discourse
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 ha	punct
3	ha	ha	INTJ	_	1 Ah	discourse
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 laughed	nsubj
7	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seized	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 seized	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 seized	nsubj
11	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 laughed	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 coyote	det
13	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seized	obj
14	by	by	ADP	_	18 paws	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 paws	nmod:poss
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 paws	nummod
17	fore	fore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 paws	amod
18	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 seized	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 feet	cc
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 feet	nmod:poss
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 feet	nummod
22	hind	hind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 feet	amod
23	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 paws	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 swung	cc
25	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 laughed	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 swung	obj
27	over	over	ADP	_	25 swung	compound:prt
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 swung	obl:unmarked
29	across	across	ADP	_	31 shoulders	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 shoulders	nmod:poss
31	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 swung	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh in a quote	past	paw				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	seize in a quote	past	paw	the coyote		by coyote's two fore paws and coyote's two hind feet	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coyote=Theme
3	swing over in a quote	past	paw not said here	paw	paw's shoulders	head obl:unmarked	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme across shoulder=Trajectory

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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