Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 122
Then he began climbing the tree to find the disagreeable sound.
Who acts: squeaking · What happens: begin, climb, find · To what, where: tree, disagreeable sound
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 (squeaking), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 began | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 began | nsubj |
| 3 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | climbing | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 began | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 climbing | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 find | mark |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 climbing | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sound | det |
| 10 | disagreeable | disagreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sound | amod |
| 11 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | squeaking | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | climb | gerund | squeaking not said here | the tree | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | squeaking not said here | the disagreeable sound | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Topic |
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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