Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 116
The dripping of amber oil into pearly dishes, drop by drop, pleased his hungry eyes.
Who acts: dripping · What happens: drop
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 (dripping), 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 | 2 dripping | det |
| 2 | dripping | dripping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drop | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 oil | case |
| 4 | amber | amber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 oil | compound |
| 5 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dripping | nmod |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 dishes | case |
| 7 | pearly | pearly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 dishes | amod |
| 8 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dripping | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drop | punct |
| 10 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 drop | case |
| 12 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drop | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pleased | punct |
| 14 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 drop | amod |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eyes | amod |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 pleased | nsubj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 drop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | infinitive | the dripping of amber oil into pearly dishes | by drop | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by drop=Trajectory |
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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