Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 65
Then off he ran so swiftly that his long bushy tail hung out in a straight line with his back.
Who acts: Iktomi, long bushy tail · What happens: run, hang out · To what, where: straight line
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, long bushy tail), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 ran | advmod |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 ran | mark |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 swiftly | advmod |
| 6 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 4 ran | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 hung | mark |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 tail | nmod:poss |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tail | amod |
| 10 | bushy | bushy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tail | amod |
| 11 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hung | nsubj |
| 12 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ran | advcl |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 hung | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 line | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 line | det |
| 16 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 line | amod |
| 17 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hung | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 back | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 back | nmod:poss |
| 20 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 line | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Iktomi | then | swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | hang out | participle | Iktomi's long bushy tail | a straight line with Iktomi's back | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in line=Location |
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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