Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 56

The young Iktomis stretched their necks and rolled their round black eyes like newly hatched birds.

Who acts: young Iktomis · What happens: stretch, roll, hatch · To what, where: necks, round black eyes

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Turtle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Iktomis), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Iktomis	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Iktomis	amod
3	Iktomis	Iktomis	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stretched	nsubj
4	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 necks	nmod:poss
6	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stretched	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rolled	cc
8	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stretched	conj
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eyes	nmod:poss
10	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 eyes	amod
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 eyes	amod
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rolled	obj
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 birds	case
14	newly	newly	ADV	_	15 hatched	advmod
15	hatched	hatch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 birds	amod
16	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 rolled	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stretch	past	the young Iktomis	faces's necks		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient
2	roll	past	the young Iktomis not said here	necks's round black eyes	like hatched birds	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Agent
3	hatch	participle			newly property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient

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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