Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 111

The brisk wind which stirred the fire also played with a squeaky old tree beside Iktomi's wigwam.

Who acts: brisk wind · What happens: stir, play · To what, where: fire

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 (brisk wind), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wind	det
2	brisk	brisk	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wind	amod
3	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 played	nsubj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 stirred	nsubj
5	stirred	stir	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wind	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stirred	obj
8	also	also	ADV	_	9 played	advmod
9	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	14 tree	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tree	det
12	squeaky	squeaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tree	amod
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tree	amod
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 played	obl
15	beside	beside	ADP	_	18 wigwam	case
16	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 wigwam	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 Iktomi	case
18	wigwam	wigwam	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stir	past	the brisk wind	the fire					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fire=Experiencer
2	play	past	the brisk wind					with a squeaky old tree beside Iktomi's wigwam	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tree=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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