Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 134
The leader of the pack upon hearing Iktomi's words turned to his comrades and said:
Who acts: leader, Iktomi · What happens: hear, turn, say, word · To what, where: words, comrades · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (leader, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 leader | det |
| 2 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pack | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pack | det |
| 5 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leader | nmod |
| 6 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 7 hearing | mark |
| 7 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 leader | acl |
| 8 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 words | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Iktomi | case |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hearing | obj |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 comrades | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 14 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 turned | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turned | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the leader of the pack not said here | Iktomi's words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | the leader of the pack | leader's comrades | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to comrade=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the leader of the pack not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | word | Iktomi | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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