Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 114

By this time the fawns gathered close around Iktomi.

Who acts: fawns · What happens: gather

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 (fawns), 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	By	by	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gathered	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fawns	det
5	fawns	fawn	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 gathered	nsubj
6	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 gathered	advmod
8	around	around	ADP	_	9 Iktomi	case
9	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 close	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gathered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gather	past	the fawns				time	close property	vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=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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