Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 144

A red ember was tucked under the dry grass.

What happens: tuck · To what, where: red ember, dry grass

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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ember	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ember	amod
3	ember	ember	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tucked	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tucked	aux:pass
5	tucked	tuck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	under	under	ADP	_	9 grass	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grass	det
8	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 grass	amod
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tucked	obl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tucked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tuck	past · passive		a red ember		the dry grass			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme under grass=Trajectory

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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