Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 120

But Iktomi's ears were like the fungus on a tree.

Who acts: ears · What happens: be · To what, where: tree

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ears), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 fungus	cc
2	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ears	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Iktomi	case
4	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fungus	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fungus	cop
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 fungus	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fungus	det
8	fungus	fungus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 tree	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fungus	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fungus	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Iktomi's ears			a tree		like the fungus	tree rules

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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