Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 141

He heard them crack the small round bones with their strong long teeth and eat out the oily marrow.

Who acts: IKTOMI, feet · What happens: hear, crack, eat out · To what, where: feet, small round bones, oily marrow

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, feet), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 heard	obj
4	crack	crack	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 heard	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bones	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bones	amod
7	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bones	amod
8	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crack	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 teeth	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 teeth	nmod:poss
11	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 teeth	amod
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 teeth	amod
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 crack	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 eat	cc
15	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 eat	compound:prt
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 marrow	det
18	oily	oily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 marrow	amod
19	marrow	marrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 eat	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	IKTOMI	feet = foot		tree rules
2	crack	infinitive	feet = foot not said here	the small round bones	with feet's strong long teeth	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bone=Patient with tooth=Instrument
3	eat out	present	IKTOMI not said here	the oily marrow		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marrow=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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