Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 65
The creek was seething with the dancing of round black things.
Who acts: creek · What happens: seethe, dance · To what, where: round black things
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 (creek), 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 | 2 creek | det |
| 2 | creek | creek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seething | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seething | aux |
| 4 | seething | seethe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 dancing | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dancing | det |
| 7 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seething | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 things | case |
| 9 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 things | amod |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 things | amod |
| 11 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 dancing | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seething | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seethe | past · progressive | the creek | with the dancing of round black things | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Location with dancing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dance | round black things | nom dancing «act transitive»: of=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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