Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 53
He saw red dancing fire, and now he struck a bed of cracking embers.
Who acts: paw · What happens: see, strike · To what, where: red dancing fire, bed
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fire | amod |
| 4 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fire | compound |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 struck | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 struck | cc |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 struck | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 struck | nsubj |
| 10 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bed | det |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 struck | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 embers | case |
| 14 | cracking | cracking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 embers | compound |
| 15 | embers | ember | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bed | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | paw | red dancing fire | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fire=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | paw | a bed of cracking embers | now | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient |
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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