Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 7
He stopped a few steps away from a very large bunch of wild sage.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: stop · To what, where: large bunch
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), 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 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 steps | det |
| 4 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 steps | amod |
| 5 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 away | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 stopped | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 bunch | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 bunch | det |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 large | advmod |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 bunch | amod |
| 11 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stopped | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sage | case |
| 13 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sage | amod |
| 14 | sage | sage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bunch | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | Iktomi | a large bunch of wild sage | away property | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer from bunch=Eventuality |
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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