Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 48
Now Iktomi returned to the coyote who had been looking on through his eyelashes.
Who acts: Iktomi, coyote · What happens: return, look on
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, coyote), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg338:337): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 returned | advmod |
| 2 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | nsubj |
| 3 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 coyote | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 coyote | det |
| 6 | coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 returned | obl |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 looking | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 looking | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 looking | aux |
| 10 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 coyote | acl:relcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 looking | compound:prt |
| 12 | through | through | ADP | _ | 14 eyelashes | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyelashes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyelashes | eyelash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 looking | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Iktomi | now | to the coyote result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to coyote=Result | |||
| 2 | look on | past · perfect · progressive | the coyote | through Iktomi's eyelashes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through eyelash=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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