Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 28
All the while the coyote on his back lay gazing into the sky with wide open eyes.
Who acts: coyote · What happens: lie, gaze
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 (coyote), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 lay | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 1 All | det |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 lay | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 coyote | det |
| 5 | coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 back | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 back | nmod:poss |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 coyote | nmod |
| 9 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | gazing | gaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 lay | xcomp |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 sky | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sky | det |
| 13 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gazing | obl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 eyes | case |
| 15 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eyes | amod |
| 16 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eyes | amod |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 gazing | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the coyote on Iktomi's back | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gaze | gerund | the coyote on Iktomi's back not said here | with wide open eyes; into the sky | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into sky=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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