Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 67
Now it chanced that immortal Iktomi, fully recovered from the brown burnt spots, overheard the people talking.
Who acts: mouth, people · What happens: chance, recover, overhear, talk · To what, where: immortal Iktomi, brown burnt spots, people
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 (mouth, people), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 chanced | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chanced | nsubj |
| 3 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 Iktomi | mark |
| 5 | immortal | immortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Iktomi | amod |
| 6 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 chanced | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 recovered | punct |
| 8 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 9 recovered | advmod |
| 9 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 chanced | conj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 spots | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spots | det |
| 12 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 spots | amod |
| 13 | burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 spots | amod |
| 14 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 recovered | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 overheard | punct |
| 16 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 chanced | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 people | det |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 overheard | obj |
| 19 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 people | acl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chance | past | mouth | immortal Iktomi | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | recover | participle | mouth not said here | the brown burnt spots | fully property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from spot=Source | |||
| 3 | overhear | past | mouth not said here | the people | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer people=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | talk | gerund | the people not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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