Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 75

Up rose the circle of seated ducks and holding their wings close against their sides began to dance to the rhythm of Iktomi's song and drum.

Who acts: wings, sides, Iktomi · What happens: rise, seat, hold, close, begin, dance · To what, where: circle, rhythm

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 (wings, sides, 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	Up	up	ADV	_	2 rose	advmod
2	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 circle	det
4	circle	circle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rose	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 ducks	case
6	seated	seat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 ducks	amod
7	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 circle	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	2 rose	cc
9	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 rose	advcl
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 wings	nmod:poss
11	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 close	nsubj
12	close	close	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 holding	ccomp
13	against	against	SCONJ	_	16 began	mark
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 sides	nmod:poss
15	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 began	nsubj
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 close	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 dance	mark
18	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 rhythm	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rhythm	det
21	rhythm	rhythm	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 dance	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	25 song	case
23	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 song	nmod:poss
24	's	's	PART	_	23 Iktomi	case
25	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rhythm	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 drum	cc
27	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 song	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	rise	past		the circle of seated ducks		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location circle=Theme
2	seat	participle				vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location
3	hold	gerund				vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	close	present	ducks's wings			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	begin	past	wings's sides			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	dance	to-infinitive	wings's sides not said here		the rhythm of Iktomi's song and drum	vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to rhythm=Trajectory
7	sing		Iktomi			nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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