Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 55
Some even brushed their wings against the mysterious bundle.
Who acts: Some · What happens: brush · To what, where: wings, mysterious bundle
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 (Some), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 brushed | nsubj |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 3 brushed | advmod |
| 3 | brushed | brush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wings | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 brushed | obj |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 9 bundle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bundle | det |
| 8 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 bundle | amod |
| 9 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brushed | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brush | past | Some | ducks's wings | the mysterious bundle | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent wing=Theme against bundle=Destination |
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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