Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 25

The wolf was large and the teepee was far across the prairie.

Who acts: wolf, teepee · What happens: be · To what, where: prairie

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 (wolf, teepee), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 large	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 large	cop
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 far	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 teepee	det
7	teepee	teepee	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 far	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 far	cop
9	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 large	conj
10	across	across	ADP	_	12 prairie	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 prairie	det
12	prairie	prairie	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 far	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 large	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wolf					large property	tree rules
2	is	past	the teepee			the prairie		far property	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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