Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 43

He wondered what Iktomi would do, thus he lay still where he fell.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: wonder, do, lie, fall

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wondered	nsubj
2	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 wondered	obj
4	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 do	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 do	aux
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 what	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lay	punct
8	thus	thus	ADV	_	10 lay	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lay	nsubj
10	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wondered	parataxis
11	still	still	ADV	_	10 lay	advmod
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 fell	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fell	nsubj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 lay	advcl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wondered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	past	Iktomi			tree rules
2	do	would	Iktomi			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lie	past	Iktomi	still	thus property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fall	past	Iktomi			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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