Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 62
Quickly he bent green willow sticks, planting both ends of each pole into the earth.
Who acts: IKTOMI · What happens: bend, plant · To what, where: green willow sticks, ends, earth
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 (IKTOMI), 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 | Quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 3 bent | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bent | nsubj |
| 3 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sticks | amod |
| 5 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sticks | compound |
| 6 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bent | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 planting | punct |
| 8 | planting | plant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 bent | advcl |
| 9 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 ends | det |
| 10 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 planting | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 pole | case |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 pole | det |
| 13 | pole | pole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ends | nmod |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 earth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 earth | det |
| 16 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 planting | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | past | IKTOMI | green willow sticks | quickly property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent stick=Material | |||
| 2 | plant | gerund | IKTOMI not said here | both ends of each pole | the earth | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent end=Theme into earth=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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