Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 3
Iktomi in his fringed buckskins walked alone across the prairie with a black bare head glossy in the sunlight.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: fringe, walk · 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 (Iktomi), 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 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 buckskins | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 buckskins | nmod:poss |
| 4 | fringed | fringe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 buckskins | amod |
| 5 | buckskins | buckskin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Iktomi | nmod |
| 6 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 6 walked | advmod |
| 8 | across | across | ADP | _ | 10 prairie | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prairie | det |
| 10 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 walked | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 head | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 head | det |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 head | amod |
| 14 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 head | amod |
| 15 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prairie | nmod |
| 16 | glossy | glossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 head | amod |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 sunlight | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sunlight | det |
| 19 | sunlight | sunlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 glossy | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fringe | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | walk | past | Iktomi in Iktomi's fringed buckskins | the prairie with a black bare head | alone property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across prairie=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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