Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 40

Hereupon the drummers stretched their necks till they strangled their song for a look at the stranger passing by.

Who acts: Hereupon, drummers, stranger · What happens: stretch, strangle, pass by, sing · To what, where: necks, song, stranger

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 (Hereupon, drummers, stranger), 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	Hereupon	Hereupon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stretched	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 drummers	det
3	drummers	drummer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stretched	nsubj
4	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 necks	nmod:poss
6	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stretched	obj
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 strangled	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 strangled	nsubj
9	strangled	strangle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stretched	advcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 song	nmod:poss
11	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 strangled	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 look	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 look	det
14	look	look	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 strangled	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 stranger	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stranger	det
17	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 strangled	obl
18	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 stranger	acl
19	by	by	ADP	_	18 passing	fixed
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stretch	past	Hereupon	drummers's necks			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent neck=Patient
2	strangle	past	drummers = drummer	drummers's song	the stranger	for a look	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Patient
3	pass by	gerund	the stranger not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sing		drummers = drummer				nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=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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