Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 113
Then away he shot through the air in the direction his comrades had flown.
Who acts: Iktomi, direction · What happens: shoot, fly · To what, where: air, comrades
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, direction), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 away | advmod |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 shot | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shot | nsubj |
| 4 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 air | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 air | det |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shot | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 direction | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 direction | det |
| 10 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shot | obl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 12 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flown | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 flown | aux |
| 14 | flown | fly | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 direction | acl:relcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | past | Iktomi | the air | in the direction; away property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent through air=Destination | |||
| 2 | fly | past · perfect · passive | the direction not said here | Iktomi's comrades | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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