Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 39
“Ho! who is there?” called out a curious old duck, still bobbing up and down in the circular dance.
Who acts: curious old duck · What happens: call out, bob up · To what, where: curious old duck, circular dance
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 (curious old duck), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 2 | Ho | Ho | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ho | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 is | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 called | aux:pass |
| 6 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 called | compound:prt |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 duck | det |
| 12 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 duck | amod |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 duck | amod |
| 14 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bobbing | punct |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 bobbing | advmod |
| 17 | bobbing | bob | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 duck | acl |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 bobbing | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 down | cc |
| 20 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 up | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 dance | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dance | det |
| 23 | circular | circular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dance | amod |
| 24 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bobbing | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | present · passive | a curious old duck | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 2 | bob up | gerund | a curious old duck not said here | the circular dance | still | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dance=Location |
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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