Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 56
Dumbfounded, Iktomi thought he saw a spirit walk out of his fire.
Who acts: Iktomi, spirit · What happens: dumbfound, think, see, walk out, fire · To what, where: fire · Speech: someone speaks here
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, spirit), 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 | Dumbfounded | dumbfound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thought | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dumbfounded | punct |
| 3 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 spirit | det |
| 8 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walk | nsubj |
| 9 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 fire | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 fire | nmod:poss |
| 13 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 walk | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dumbfound | participle | Iktomi not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Iktomi | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Iktomi | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | walk out | infinitive | a spirit | Iktomi's fire | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | fire | Iktomi | nom fire «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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