Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 77

Iktomi ceased to beat his drum.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: cease, beat · To what, where: drum

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	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ceased	nsubj
2	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 beat	mark
4	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 ceased	xcomp
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 drum	nmod:poss
6	drum	drum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beat	obj
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ceased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cease	past	Iktomi						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	beat	to-infinitive	Iktomi not said here	IKTOMI's drum					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme

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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