Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 49
Taking him again by his paws and hind feet, he swung him to and fro.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: take, swing, fro · To what, where: Iktomi, paw
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 | Taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 swung | advcl |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Taking | obj |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 1 Taking | advmod |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 paws | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 paws | nmod:poss |
| 6 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Taking | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 feet | cc |
| 8 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 feet | amod |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 paws | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taking | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 swung | nsubj |
| 12 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 swung | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 swung | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fro | cc |
| 16 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 swung | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 swung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | Iktomi not said here | Iktomi | again | by Iktomi's paws and hind feet | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | ||
| 2 | swing | past | Iktomi | paw | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fro | infinitive | Iktomi not said here | tree rules |
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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