Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 26
From side to side bounced the bundle on his back, as he ran light-footed over the uneven ground.
Who acts: IKTOMI · What happens: bounce, run, foot · To what, where: bundle, side, uneven ground
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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 side | case |
| 2 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bounced | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 side | case |
| 4 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 side | nmod |
| 5 | bounced | bounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bundle | det |
| 7 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bounced | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 back | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 back | nmod:poss |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bounced | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ran | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 ran | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ran | nsubj |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 bounced | conj |
| 15 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 footed | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 light | punct |
| 17 | footed | foot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ran | ccomp |
| 18 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 ground | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ground | det |
| 20 | uneven | uneven | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ground | amod |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 footed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bounced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bounce | past | the bundle | side to side | on IKTOMI's back | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme from side=Initial_Location on back=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | run | past | IKTOMI | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | foot | participle | IKTOMI not said here | the uneven ground | tree rules |
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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