Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 60
Rolling over and over on the grass and rubbing the sides of his head against the ground, the coyote soon put out the fire on his fur.
Who acts: coyote · What happens: roll, rub, put out · To what, where: grass, sides, ground, fire, fur
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 (coyote), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg338:349): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rolling | roll | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 put | advcl |
| 2 | over | over | ADV | _ | 1 Rolling | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 over | cc |
| 4 | over | over | ADV | _ | 2 over | conj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 grass | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grass | det |
| 7 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rolling | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rubbing | cc |
| 9 | rubbing | rub | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Rolling | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sides | det |
| 11 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rubbing | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sides | nmod |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rubbing | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rolling | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 coyote | det |
| 20 | coyote | coyote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | nsubj |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 put | advmod |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 put | compound:prt |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fire | det |
| 25 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 fur | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 fur | nmod:poss |
| 28 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fire | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | gerund | the coyote not said here | the grass | over property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on grass=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | rub | gerund | the coyote not said here | the sides of Iktomi's head | the ground | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent side=Theme against ground=Destination | |||
| 3 | put out | past | the coyote | the fire | Iktomi's fur | soon property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme on fur=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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