Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 45
In the meanwhile strong men seized Iktomi and dragged him by his long hair to the hilltop.
Who acts: strong men · What happens: seize, drag · To what, where: Iktomi, meanwhile, hilltop
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Shooting of the Red Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strong men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg338:831): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meanwhile | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meanwhile | det |
| 3 | meanwhile | meanwhile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obl |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 men | amod |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 seized | nsubj |
| 6 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 seized | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dragged | cc |
| 9 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seized | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dragged | obj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 hair | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hair | nmod:poss |
| 13 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hair | amod |
| 14 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dragged | obl |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 hilltop | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hilltop | det |
| 17 | hilltop | hilltop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dragged | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past | strong men | Iktomi | the meanwhile | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iktomi=Theme | |||
| 2 | drag | past | strong men not said here | Iktomi | the hilltop | by chieftain's long hair | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to hilltop=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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