Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 2
Its long fan-like tail feathers had caught all the beautiful colors of the rainbow.
What happens: catch · To what, where: long like tail feathers
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 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feathers | amod |
| 3 | fan | fan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 like | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 fan | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feathers | amod |
| 6 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 feathers | compound |
| 7 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 caught | aux |
| 9 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 colors | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 colors | det |
| 12 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 colors | amod |
| 13 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 caught | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 rainbow | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rainbow | det |
| 16 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 colors | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · perfect · passive | top's long like tail feathers | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary color=Theme |
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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