Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 62

Muttering unhappy vows to himself, Iktomi had not gone far when he chanced upon a bunch of long slender arrows.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: mutter, not go, chance · To what, where: unhappy vows, bird, bunch

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 (Iktomi), 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	Muttering	mutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 gone	advcl
2	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 vows	amod
3	vows	vow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Muttering	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Muttering	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Muttering	punct
7	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gone	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 gone	advmod
10	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 gone	advmod
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 chanced	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 chanced	nsubj
14	chanced	chance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 gone	advcl
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 bunch	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bunch	det
17	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 chanced	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 arrows	case
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 arrows	amod
20	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 arrows	amod
21	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 bunch	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	mutter speech: assert	gerund	Iktomi not said here	unhappy vows	bird			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent vow=Topic to himself=Recipient
2	not go	past · perfect	Iktomi				far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	chance	past	Iktomi			a bunch of long slender arrows		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon bunch=Location

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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