Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 76
There was no Iktomi, but two arrows stood ready to fly.
Who acts: Iktomi, two arrows · What happens: be, stand, fly
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, two arrows), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 Iktomi | det |
| 4 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 was | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 stood | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 stood | cc |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 arrows | nummod |
| 8 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 was | conj |
| 10 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stood | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 fly | mark |
| 12 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ready | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | no Iktomi | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | two arrows | ready property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fly | to-infinitive | two arrows not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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