Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 109
He had seen Iktomi make his one leap, and the charm was broken.
Who acts: Hereupon, Iktomi · What happens: see, make, break, leap · To what, where: one leap, charm
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 (Hereupon, 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 | 3 seen | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 seen | aux |
| 3 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 make | nsubj |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seen | parataxis |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 leap | nmod:poss |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 leap | nummod |
| 8 | leap | leap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 broken | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 broken | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 charm | det |
| 12 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 broken | aux:pass |
| 14 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 seen | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | Hereupon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | make | infinitive | Iktomi | Hereupon's one leap | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leap=Product | ||||
| 3 | break | past · passive | the charm | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 4 | leap | Hereupon | nom leap «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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