Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 6

He lifted his foot lightly and placed it gently forward like a wildcat prowling noiselessly through the thick grass.

Who acts: Iktomi, wildcat · What happens: lift, place, prowl · To what, where: foot, thick grass

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, wildcat), 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 lifted	nsubj
2	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 foot	nmod:poss
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lifted	obj
5	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	2 lifted	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 placed	cc
7	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lifted	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 placed	obj
9	gently	gently	ADV	_	7 placed	advmod
10	forward	forward	ADV	_	7 placed	advmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 wildcat	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 wildcat	det
13	wildcat	wildcat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 placed	obl
14	prowling	prowl	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 wildcat	acl
15	noiselessly	noiselessly	ADV	_	14 prowling	advmod
16	through	through	ADP	_	19 grass	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 grass	det
18	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 grass	amod
19	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 prowling	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lifted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift	past	Iktomi	Iktomi's foot		lightly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
2	place	past	Iktomi not said here	foot		like a wildcat; forward, gently property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	prowl	gerund	a wildcat not said here		the thick grass	noiselessly property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through grass=Trajectory

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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