Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 115
Iktomi shrugged his great shoulders, but did not once take his eyes from the ducks.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: shrug, not take · To what, where: great shoulders, eyes
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 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 shrugged | nsubj |
| 2 | shrugged | shrug | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 shoulders | amod |
| 5 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 shrugged | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 take | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 take | cc |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 take | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 take | advmod |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 take | advmod |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 shrugged | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 take | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 ducks | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ducks | det |
| 16 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 take | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shrugged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shrug | past | Iktomi | IKTOMI's great shoulders | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not take | past · do-support | Iktomi not said here | IKTOMI's eyes | from the ducks; once property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent eye=Theme from duck=Initial_Location |
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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