Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 145
Off scampered the fawns after their mothers; and when a great distance away they looked backward.
Who acts: great distance · What happens: scamper, look · To what, where: fawns
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 (great distance), 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 | Off | off | ADV | _ | 2 scampered | advmod |
| 2 | scampered | scamper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fawns | det |
| 4 | fawns | fawn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 scampered | obj |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 mothers | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mothers | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 scampered | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 looked | advmod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 distance | det |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 distance | amod |
| 13 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 distance | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 scampered | parataxis |
| 17 | backward | backward | ADV | _ | 16 looked | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 scampered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scamper | participle | the fawns | after grass's mothers | off property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location fawn=Theme | |||
| 2 | look | past | a great distance | backward property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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