Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 104
Disappearing within his teepee, he came out again with some huge seashells.
Who acts: IKTOMI · What happens: disappear, come out
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 | Disappearing | disappear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 2 | within | within | ADP | _ | 4 teepee | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 teepee | nmod:poss |
| 4 | teepee | teepee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Disappearing | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Disappearing | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 came | advmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 seashells | case |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 seashells | det |
| 12 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 seashells | amod |
| 13 | seashells | seashell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 came | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disappear | gerund | IKTOMI not said here | within IKTOMI's teepee | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come out | past | IKTOMI | again | with some huge seashells; out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: 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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