Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 68

All the ducks sat round-eyed in a circle about the mysterious singer.

Who acts: ducks · What happens: sit, eye · To what, where: circle

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 (ducks), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 ducks	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ducks	det
3	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 eyed	amod
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 round	punct
7	eyed	eye	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sat	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 circle	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 circle	det
10	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eyed	obl
11	about	about	ADP	_	14 singer	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 singer	det
13	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 singer	amod
14	singer	singer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 circle	nmod
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	all ducks						tree rules
2	eye	participle	all ducks not said here			a circle about the mysterious singer			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer

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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