Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 12
Why! he laughs outright with wide open mouth when some simple folk are caught in a trap, sure and fast.
Who acts: IKTOMI · What happens: laugh, catch · To what, where: simple folk, trap
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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 laughs | advmod |
| 2 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 laughs | nsubj |
| 4 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | outright | outright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 laughs | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 mouth | case |
| 7 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mouth | amod |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mouth | amod |
| 9 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 outright | obl |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 caught | mark |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 folk | det |
| 12 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 folk | amod |
| 13 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 caught | aux:pass |
| 15 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 mouth | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 trap | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 trap | det |
| 18 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caught | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sure | punct |
| 20 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 trap | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fast | cc |
| 22 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sure | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 laughs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | present | IKTOMI | outright property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | catch | present · passive | some simple folk | a trap | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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