Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 60
Iktomi, with great care, laid down his bundle on the ground.
Who acts: great care · What happens: lay down · To what, where: bundle, ground
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 (great care), 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 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 care | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 care | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 care | case |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 care | amod |
| 5 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 laid | punct |
| 7 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 care | acl |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 laid | compound:prt |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bundle | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laid | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laid | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay down | participle | great care not said here | IKTOMI's bundle | the ground | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme on ground=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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