Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 81
At once he set about to teach the new arrow how to shoot in a long straight line.
Who acts: magician, new arrow · What happens: set about, teach, shoot · To what, where: new arrow, long straight line
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 (magician, new arrow), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 once | case |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 set | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 teach | mark |
| 7 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 set | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 arrow | det |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 arrow | amod |
| 10 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 teach | obj |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 shoot | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 shoot | mark |
| 13 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 teach | xcomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 line | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 line | det |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 line | amod |
| 17 | straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 line | amod |
| 18 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shoot | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set about | past | magician | about property | vn begin-55.1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | teach speech: other | to-infinitive | magician not said here | the new arrow | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent arrow=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | shoot | to-infinitive | the new arrow not said here | a long straight line | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in line=Destination |
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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