Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 55
From his heels were scattered a shower of red coals upon Iktomi's bare arms and shoulders.
What happens: scatter · To what, where: shower, heels
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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 heels | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 heels | nmod:poss |
| 3 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scattered | obl |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scattered | aux:pass |
| 5 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shower | det |
| 7 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scattered | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 coals | case |
| 9 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 coals | amod |
| 10 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shower | nmod |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 arms | case |
| 12 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 arms | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Iktomi | case |
| 14 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 arms | amod |
| 15 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scattered | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 shoulders | cc |
| 17 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 arms | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scattered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scatter | past · passive | a shower of red coals | paw's heels | upon Iktomi's bare arms and shoulders | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: shower=Theme upon arm=Destination |
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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