Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 124

She dug a large hole in the ground and made a soft bed of grass and twigs in it.

Who acts: mother · What happens: dig, make · To what, where: large hole, ground, soft bed, bed

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 (mother), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dug	nsubj
2	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hole	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hole	amod
5	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dug	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hole	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 made	cc
10	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dug	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bed	det
12	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bed	amod
13	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 made	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 grass	case
15	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bed	nmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 twigs	cc
17	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 grass	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 it	case
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 made	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dug	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	past	mother	a large hole		the ground			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hole=Theme in ground=Location
2	make	past	mother not said here	a soft bed of grass and twigs		bed			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bed=Product

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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