Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 67

In a strange low voice Iktomi began his queer old tunes.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: begin · To what, where: queer old tunes, strange low voice

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	In	in	ADP	_	5 voice	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 voice	det
3	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 voice	amod
4	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 voice	amod
5	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 began	obl
6	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 began	nsubj
7	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 tunes	nmod:poss
9	queer	queer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tunes	amod
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tunes	amod
11	tunes	tune	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 began	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	Iktomi	IKTOMI's queer old tunes		a strange low voice			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Eventuality

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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