Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 79

He seemed to be moving about in the center of the ring.

Who acts: IKTOMI · What happens: seem, move about · To what, where: center

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 moving	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 moving	aux
5	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 seemed	xcomp
6	about	about	ADV	_	5 moving	advmod
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 center	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 center	det
9	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 moving	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 ring	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ring	det
12	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 center	nmod
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seem	past	IKTOMI						vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	move about	to-infinitive · progressive	IKTOMI not said here			the center of the ring		about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in center=Trajectory

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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