Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 33
With wings outspread, tip to tip, they moved up and down in a large circle.
Who acts: you, wings · What happens: outspread, tip, move up · To what, where: wings, large circle
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 (you, wings), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 wings | case |
| 2 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tip | obl |
| 3 | outspread | outspread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 wings | acl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 wings | punct |
| 5 | tip | tip | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 tip | mark |
| 7 | tip | tip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 tip | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 moved | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 moved | nsubj |
| 10 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tip | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADV | _ | 10 moved | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 down | cc |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 up | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 circle | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 circle | det |
| 16 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 circle | amod |
| 17 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 moved | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tip | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | outspread | participle | wings not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | tip | imperative | you not said here | with wings | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tip | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | move up | past | wings = wing | a large circle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in circle=Trajectory |
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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