Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 103

A few he buried under the ashes to bake.

Who acts: IKTOMI · What happens: bury, bake · To what, where: ashes

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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 few	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 buried	nsubj
4	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 few	acl:relcl
5	under	under	ADP	_	7 ashes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ashes	det
7	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 buried	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 bake	mark
9	bake	bake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 buried	advcl
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 few	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past	IKTOMI			the ashes			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under ash=Destination
2	bake	to-infinitive	IKTOMI 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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