Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 139
From the tree Iktomi watched the hungry wolves eat up his nicely browned fat ducks.
Who acts: Iktomi, hungry wolves · What happens: watch, eat up, brown · To what, where: tree, browned fat ducks
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, hungry wolves), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 tree | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tree | det |
| 3 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 watched | obl |
| 4 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 watched | nsubj |
| 5 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wolves | det |
| 7 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wolves | amod |
| 8 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eat | nsubj |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 watched | ccomp |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 eat | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 ducks | nmod:poss |
| 12 | nicely | nicely | ADV | _ | 13 browned | advmod |
| 13 | browned | brown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 ducks | amod |
| 14 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ducks | amod |
| 15 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eat | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | Iktomi | the tree | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | eat up | present | the hungry wolves | IKTOMI's browned fat ducks | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Patient | ||||
| 3 | brown | participle | nicely property | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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