Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 41

The coyote felt drowsy no longer, for in the next instant he was slipping out of Iktomi's hands.

Who acts: coyote, Iktomi · What happens: feel, slip out · To what, where: hands

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, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 coyote	det
2	coyote	coyote	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 felt	nsubj
3	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	drowsy	drowsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 felt	xcomp
5	no	no	ADV	_	6 longer	advmod
6	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 felt	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 slipping	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 instant	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 instant	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 instant	det
11	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 instant	amod
12	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 slipping	obl
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 slipping	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 slipping	aux
15	slipping	slip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 felt	advcl
16	out	out	ADP	_	20 hands	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 hands	case
18	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 hands	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Iktomi	case
20	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 slipping	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the coyote					drowsy, long property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	slip out	past · progressive	Iktomi	Iktomi's hands				for the next instant	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent hand=Patient

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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