Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 30

“To ride on one's own feet is tiresome, but to be carried like a warrior from a brave fight is great fun!” said the coyote in his heart.

Who acts: one, coyote · What happens: ride, be, carry, say · To what, where: brave fight, great fun · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (one, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 ride	punct
2	To	to	PART	_	3 ride	mark
3	ride	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 said	ccomp
4	on	on	SCONJ	_	10 tiresome	mark
5	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 tiresome	nsubj
6	's	's	PART	_	5 one	case
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 feet	amod
8	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	conj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 tiresome	cop
10	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ride	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 carried	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 carried	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	15 carried	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 carried	aux:pass
15	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 fun	csubj:pass
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 warrior	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 warrior	det
18	warrior	warrior	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carried	obl
19	from	from	ADP	_	22 fight	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 fight	det
21	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 fight	amod
22	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 carried	obl
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 fun	cop
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fun	amod
25	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ride	obl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 ride	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 ride	punct
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 coyote	det
30	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 said	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 heart	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 heart	nmod:poss
33	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 coyote	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ride in a quote	to-infinitive					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	one			tiresome property	tree rules
3	carry in a quote	to-infinitive · passive			a brave fight	like a warrior	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: from fight=Initial_Location
4	is a in a quote	present		great fun			tree rules
5	say speech: express	past	the coyote				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg338/5/30/