Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 100

There among them stood Iktomi in brown buckskins, and the strange talking arrow was gone.

Who acts: nostrils, strange talking arrow · What happens: stand, be · To what, where: Iktomi, brown buckskins

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 (nostrils, strange talking arrow), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 stood	expl
2	among	among	ADP	_	4 stood	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stood	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 buckskins	case
7	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 buckskins	amod
8	buckskins	buckskin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stood	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gone	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gone	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 arrow	det
12	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 arrow	amod
13	talking	talking	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 arrow	compound
14	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gone	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gone	cop
16	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stood	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	nostrils = nostril	Iktomi		brown buckskins; there			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent iktomi=Theme in buckskin=Destination
2	is	past	the strange talking arrow					gone property	tree rules

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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