Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 141
After the hole was dug and cushioned with grass, Iktomi, muttering something about brown spots, leaped down into it.
What happens: dig, cushion, mutter, leap down · To what, where: hole, something, brown spots
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: 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 5 dug | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hole | det |
| 3 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dug | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dug | aux:pass |
| 5 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cushioned | cc |
| 7 | cushioned | cushion | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 dug | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 grass | case |
| 9 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cushioned | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Iktomi | punct |
| 11 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dug | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 muttering | punct |
| 13 | muttering | mutter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 dug | advcl |
| 14 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 muttering | obj |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 spots | case |
| 16 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 spots | amod |
| 17 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 something | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leaped | punct |
| 19 | leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 spots | acl |
| 20 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 leaped | compound:prt |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 leaped | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dug | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | past · passive | the hole | Iktomi obl | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cushion | participle | with grass | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | mutter speech: assert | gerund | something | about brown spots | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | ||||
| 4 | leap down | participle | brown spots not said here | hole | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into it=Destination |
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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