Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 31

He had never been borne on any one's back before and the new experience delighted him.

Who acts: new experience · What happens: not bear, delight · To what, where: Iktomi, back

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 (new experience), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 borne	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 borne	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 borne	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 borne	aux:pass
5	borne	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	10 back	case
7	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 back	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 one	case
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 borne	obl
11	before	before	ADV	_	5 borne	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 delighted	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 experience	det
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 experience	amod
15	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 delighted	nsubj
16	delighted	delight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 borne	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 delighted	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 borne	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bear	past · perfect · passive		Iktomi		any one's back		before property	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	delight	past	the new experience	Iktomi					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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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