Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 32
A group of wild ducks were dancing and feasting in the marshes.
Who acts: group · What happens: dance, feast · To what, where: marshes
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 (group), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 group | det |
| 2 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dancing | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 ducks | case |
| 4 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ducks | amod |
| 5 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 group | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 dancing | aux |
| 7 | dancing | dance | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 feasting | cc |
| 9 | feasting | feast | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 dancing | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 marshes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 marshes | det |
| 12 | marshes | marsh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 feasting | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dancing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | past · progressive | a group of wild ducks | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | feast | gerund | a group of wild ducks not said here | the marshes | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=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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