Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 50
Then as the wolf swung toward the red flames, Iktomi let him go.
Who acts: wolf, Iktomi, paw · What happens: swing, let, go · To what, where: red flames, 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 (wolf, Iktomi, paw), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 swung | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 swung | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wolf | det |
| 4 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 swung | nsubj |
| 5 | swung | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 9 flames | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 flames | det |
| 8 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 flames | amod |
| 9 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swung | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 11 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 let | nsubj |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 swung | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swing | past | the wolf | the red flames | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme toward flame=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | let | infinitive | Iktomi | paw | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go | infinitive | paw not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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