Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 102
On each stake he fastened a duck to roast.
Who acts: IKTOMI · What happens: fasten, roast · To what, where: duck
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Ducks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (IKTOMI), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 stake | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 stake | det |
| 3 | stake | stake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fastened | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fastened | nsubj |
| 5 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 duck | det |
| 7 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fastened | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 roast | mark |
| 9 | roast | roast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 duck | acl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | past | IKTOMI | a duck | on each stake | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent duck=Patient on stake=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | roast | to-infinitive | IKTOMI not said here | a duck not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: 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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