Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 9
Still farther he bent from side to side, first low over one hip and then over the other.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: bend · To what, where: side
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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 2 farther | advmod |
| 2 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 bent | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bent | nsubj |
| 4 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 side | case |
| 6 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bent | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 side | case |
| 8 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bent | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 low | punct |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 low | advmod |
| 11 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 bent | advmod |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 hip | case |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 hip | nummod |
| 14 | hip | hip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 low | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 other | cc |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 other | advmod |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 other | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 other | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 low | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past | Iktomi | side | to side; far, low property | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from side=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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