Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 1

IN one of his wanderings through the wooded lands, Iktomi saw a rare bird sitting high in a tree-top.

Who acts: Iktomi, rare bird, his · What happens: wood, see, sit, wander · To what, where: rare bird, tree top, wooded lands

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Fawn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iktomi, rare bird, his), 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	IN	in	ADP	_	2 one	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 saw	obl
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 wanderings	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wanderings	nmod:poss
5	wanderings	wandering	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 one	nmod
6	through	through	ADP	_	9 lands	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lands	det
8	wooded	wood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 lands	amod
9	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wanderings	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 one	punct
11	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bird	det
14	rare	rare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bird	amod
15	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obj
16	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 bird	acl
17	high	high	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 sitting	advmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	22 top	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 top	det
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 top	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 tree	punct
22	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sitting	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wood	participle					tree rules
2	see	past	Iktomi	a rare bird		in one of his wanderings through the wooded lands	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
3	sit	gerund	a rare bird not said here		a tree top	high property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in top=Location
4	wander		his = he		the wooded lands		nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=agent through=place

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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