Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 24

Tying all the four corners together in a knot, he threw the light bundle of grass over his shoulder.

Who acts: IKTOMI · What happens: tie, throw · To what, where: four corners, knot, light bundle, shoulder

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), 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	Tying	tie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 threw	advcl
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 corners	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 corners	det
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 corners	nummod
5	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tying	obj
6	together	together	ADV	_	5 corners	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 knot	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 knot	det
9	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tying	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Tying	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 threw	nsubj
12	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bundle	det
14	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 bundle	amod
15	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 grass	case
17	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bundle	nmod
18	over	over	ADP	_	20 shoulder	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 shoulder	nmod:poss
20	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 threw	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	gerund	IKTOMI not said here	all four corners		a knot			vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=Patient
2	throw	past	IKTOMI	the light bundle of grass		IKTOMI's shoulder			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme over shoulder=Destination

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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