Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 108
A long chin between his knees pointed toward the red flames, while his eyes were on the browning ducks.
Who acts: long chin, eyes · What happens: point, be
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 (long chin, eyes), 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 | 3 chin | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chin | amod |
| 3 | chin | chin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pointed | nsubj |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 knees | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 knees | nmod:poss |
| 6 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chin | nmod |
| 7 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 11 flames | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 flames | det |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 flames | amod |
| 11 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pointed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ducks | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 ducks | mark |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 ducks | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 ducks | cop |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 ducks | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ducks | det |
| 19 | browning | browning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 ducks | compound |
| 20 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pointed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point | past | a long chin between chin's knees | toward the red flames | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | chin's eyes | on the browning ducks | tree rules |
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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