Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 71

As the startled ducks sat uneasily on the ground, Iktomi changed his tune into a minor strain.

Who acts: startled ducks, Iktomi · What happens: startle, sit, change · To what, where: ground, tune, minor strain

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 (startled ducks, 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	As	as	ADP	_	4 ducks	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ducks	det
3	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ducks	amod
4	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sat	nsubj
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	uneasily	uneasily	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 ground	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sat	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 changed	punct
11	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 changed	nsubj
12	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tune	nmod:poss
14	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 changed	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 strain	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 strain	det
17	minor	minor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 strain	amod
18	strain	strain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 changed	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	startle	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	sit	past	the startled ducks		the ground	uneasily property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
3	change	past	Iktomi	IKTOMI's tune		into a minor strain result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent tune=Patient into strain=Result

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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