Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 42

He longed to soar through space.

Who acts: shame · What happens: long, soar · To what, where: space

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 (shame), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 longed	nsubj
2	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 soar	mark
4	soar	soar	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 longed	xcomp
5	through	through	ADP	_	6 space	case
6	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 soar	obl
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 longed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	long	past	shame						vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	soar not said to happen	to-infinitive	shame not said here			space			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through space=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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