Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 145

Smacking their lips, the wolves began to leave the place, when Iktomi cried out like a pouting child, “At least you have left my baking under the ashes!”

Who acts: wolves, Iktomi, you, my · What happens: smack, begin, leave, cry out, pout, bake · To what, where: lips, place, baking, least · 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 (wolves, Iktomi, you, my), 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	Smacking	smack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 began	advcl
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 lips	nmod:poss
3	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Smacking	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Smacking	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wolves	det
6	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 leave	mark
9	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 began	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 place	det
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 leave	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 cried	advmod
14	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 cried	nsubj
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 began	parataxis
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 cried	compound:prt
17	like	like	ADP	_	20 child	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 child	det
19	pouting	pout	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 child	amod
20	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 cried	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 left	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 left	punct
23	At	at	ADP	_	24 least	case
24	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	27 left	obl
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 left	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 left	aux
27	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 cried	conj
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 baking	nmod:poss
29	baking	baking	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 left	obj
30	under	under	ADP	_	32 ashes	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 ashes	det
32	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 left	obl
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 left	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	smack	gerund	the wolves not said here	tears's lips			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient
2	begin	past	the wolves				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	leave	to-infinitive	the wolves not said here	the place			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
4	cry out speech: express	past	Iktomi			like a pouting child	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	pout	gerund					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	leave in a quote	present · perfect	you	my baking	least	under the ashes	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent baking=Theme at least=Location
7	bake in a quote		my				nom baking «act 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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