Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 37
The coyote was affected by both sleepiness and pride.
Who acts: sleepiness · What happens: affect · To what, where: coyote
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 (sleepiness), 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 coyote | det |
| 2 | coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 affected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 affected | aux:pass |
| 4 | affected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 sleepiness | case |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 sleepiness | det |
| 7 | sleepiness | sleepiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 affected | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pride | cc |
| 9 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sleepiness | conj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 affected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affect | past · passive | both sleepiness and pride | the coyote | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=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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