Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 107

Heaping more willows upon the fire, Iktomi sat down on the ground with crossed shins.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: heap, sit down, cross · To what, where: more willows, fire, ground

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	Heaping	heap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 sat	advcl
2	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 willows	amod
3	willows	willow	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Heaping	obj
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Heaping	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Heaping	punct
8	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	down	down	ADP	_	9 sat	compound:prt
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 ground	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ground	det
13	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 shins	case
15	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 shins	amod
16	shins	shin	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 sat	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	heap	gerund	Iktomi not said here	more willows	the fire		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent willow=Theme upon fire=Destination
2	sit down	past	Iktomi		the ground	with crossed shins	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
3	cross	participle					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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