Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 59

With delight all the ducks flapped their wings and cried together, “Hoye! hoye!”

Who acts: ducks · What happens: flap, cry · To what, where: wings, Hoye hoye

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 (ducks), 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 delight	case
2	delight	delight	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flapped	obl
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 ducks	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ducks	det
5	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flapped	nsubj
6	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wings	nmod:poss
8	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flapped	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cried	cc
10	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flapped	conj
11	together	together	ADV	_	10 cried	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hoye	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 hoye	punct
14	Hoye	Hoye	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 hoye	compound
15	!	!	PUNCT	_	14 Hoye	punct
16	hoye	hoye	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cried	obl
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 hoye	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 hoye	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flap	past	all ducks	ducks's wings				with delight	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
2	cry speech: express	past	all ducks not said here	Hoye hoye				together property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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