Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 65
One by one the fat ducks waddled in through a small opening, which was the only entrance way.
Who acts: One, small opening · What happens: waddle, be · To what, where: small opening, only entrance way
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 (One, small opening), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 waddled | nsubj |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 one | case |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ducks | det |
| 5 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ducks | compound |
| 6 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 waddled | nsubj |
| 7 | waddled | waddle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 waddled | advmod |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 opening | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 opening | det |
| 11 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 opening | amod |
| 12 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 waddled | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 way | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 way | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 way | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 17 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 way | amod |
| 18 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 way | compound |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 opening | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 waddled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waddle | past | One by one | a small opening and the only entrance way | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through opening=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | a small opening and the only entrance way | the only entrance way | tree rules |
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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