Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 47

The flames leaped up high in red and yellow streaks.

What happens: leap up · To what, where: flames

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: 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 flames	det
2	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	leaped	leap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 flames	acl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 leaped	compound:prt
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 leaped	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 streaks	case
7	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 streaks	amod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 yellow	cc
9	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 red	conj
10	streaks	streak	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 high	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flames	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leap up	participle		the flames not said here				high property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «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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