Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 66
Beside the door Iktomi stood smiling, as the ducks, eyeing his bundle of songs, strutted into the hut.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: stand, smile, eye, strut · To what, where: door, ducks, bundle, songs, hut
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 | Beside | beside | ADP | _ | 3 door | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 door | det |
| 3 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 4 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stood | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ducks | punct |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 ducks | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 ducks | det |
| 10 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 smiling | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 eyeing | punct |
| 12 | eyeing | eye | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stood | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bundle | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eyeing | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 songs | case |
| 16 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bundle | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 strutted | punct |
| 18 | strutted | strut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 songs | acl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 hut | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hut | det |
| 21 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 strutted | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Iktomi | the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside door=Location | ||||
| 2 | smile | gerund | Iktomi not said here | the ducks | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Topic | ||||
| 3 | eye | gerund | Iktomi not said here | IKTOMI's bundle of songs | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bundle=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | strut | participle | songs not said here | the hut | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into hut=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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