Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 86

Iktomi heard the swish! swish! of the stranger's feet through the tall grass.

Who acts: Iktomi, feet · What happens: hear, swish · To what, where: swish, tall grass

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 (Iktomi, feet), 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	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 swish	det
4	swish	swish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 swish	punct
6	swish	swish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obl
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 swish	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	12 feet	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stranger	det
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feet	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 stranger	case
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swish	nmod
13	through	through	ADP	_	16 grass	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 grass	det
15	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grass	amod
16	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Iktomi	the swish		the tall grass		swish of the stranger's feet obl	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer swish=Stimulus
2	swish		the stranger's feet						nom swish «event intransitive»: of=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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