Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 34

Within the ring, around a small drum, sat the chosen singers, nodding their heads and blinking their eyes.

What happens: sit, choose, nod, blink · To what, where: chosen singers, heads, eyes

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: 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	Within	within	ADP	_	3 ring	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ring	det
3	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 drum	punct
5	around	around	ADP	_	8 drum	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 drum	det
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 drum	amod
8	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ring	appos
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 ring	punct
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 singers	det
12	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 singers	amod
13	singers	singer	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 sat	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nodding	punct
15	nodding	nod	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 sat	advcl
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 heads	nmod:poss
17	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 nodding	obj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 blinking	cc
19	blinking	blink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 nodding	conj
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyes	nmod:poss
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 blinking	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the chosen singers	within the ring	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location singer=Theme
2	choose	participle			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	nod	gerund	singers's heads		vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
4	blink	gerund	singers's eyes		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme

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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