Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 106

Placing one under each roasting duck, he muttered, “The sweet fat oozing out will taste well with the hard-cooked breasts.”

Who acts: IKTOMI, sweet fat · What happens: place, roast, mutter, ooze out, taste, cook · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here

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, sweet fat), 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	Placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 muttered	advcl
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Placing	obj
3	under	under	ADP	_	6 duck	case
4	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	6 duck	det
5	roasting	roast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 duck	amod
6	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Placing	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 muttered	nsubj
9	muttered	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 taste	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 taste	punct
12	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fat	det
13	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fat	amod
14	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taste	nsubj
15	oozing	ooze	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 fat	acl
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 oozing	compound:prt
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 taste	aux
18	taste	taste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 muttered	ccomp
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 taste	advmod
20	with	with	ADP	_	25 breasts	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 breasts	det
22	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 cooked	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 hard	punct
24	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 breasts	amod
25	breasts	breast	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 taste	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 muttered	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 muttered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	place	gerund	IKTOMI not said here	one	under each roasting duck	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme under duck=Destination
2	roast	gerund				vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	mutter speech: assert	past	IKTOMI			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	ooze out in a quote	gerund	the sweet fat not said here			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
5	taste in a quote	future	the sweet fat		with the cooked breasts; well property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	cook in a quote	participle				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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