Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 143

While the fawn covered him over with cedars, a far-away voice came up through them, “Brown, brown spots to wear forever!”

Who acts: fawn, away voice · What happens: cover over, come up, wear · To what, where: Iktomi, Brown 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: who acts (fawn, away voice), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 covered	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fawn	det
3	fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 covered	nsubj
4	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 covered	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	4 covered	compound:prt
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 cedars	case
8	cedars	cedar	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 covered	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 voice	det
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 away	advmod
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 far	punct
13	away	away	ADV	_	14 voice	amod
14	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 covered	conj
16	up	up	ADV	_	15 came	advmod
17	through	through	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 spots	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	24 spots	punct
21	Brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 spots	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Brown	punct
23	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 spots	amod
24	spots	spot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 came	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 wear	mark
26	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 spots	acl
27	forever	forever	ADV	_	26 wear	advmod
28	!	!	PUNCT	_	24 spots	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 spots	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cover over	past	the fawn		Iktomi	with cedars	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with cedar=Theme
2	come up	past	a away voice	Brown brown spots		through cedars = cedar	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through they=Initial_Location
3	wear in a quote	to-infinitive	a away voice not said here	Brown brown spots not said here		forever property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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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