Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 83
Shifting to the right of them they hopped round and round in that blind dance.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: shift, hop · To what, where: right, blind dance
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 (eyes), 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 | Shifting | shift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 right | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 right | det |
| 4 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shifting | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 right | nmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hopped | nsubj |
| 8 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | acl:relcl |
| 9 | round | round | ADV | _ | 8 hopped | advmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 round | cc |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 9 round | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 dance | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 dance | det |
| 14 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dance | amod |
| 15 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hopped | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shifting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shift | gerund | to the right of eyes result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to right=Result | |||||
| 2 | hop | past | eyes = eye | the right of eyes not said here | that blind dance | round property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme right=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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