Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 86
It was a Skiska who peeped the least tiny blink at Iktomi within the center of the circle.
Who acts: length, Skiska · What happens: be, peep · To what, where: Skiska, tiny blink
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 (length, Skiska), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Skiska | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Skiska | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Skiska | det |
| 4 | Skiska | Skiska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 peeped | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 peeped | nsubj |
| 6 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 blink | det |
| 8 | least | least | ADV | Degree=Sup | 9 tiny | advmod |
| 9 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 blink | amod |
| 10 | blink | blink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 peeped | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 Iktomi | case |
| 12 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 blink | nmod |
| 13 | within | within | ADP | _ | 15 center | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 center | det |
| 15 | center | center | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 peeped | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 circle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 circle | det |
| 18 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 center | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 peeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | length | a Skiska | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | peep | past | a Skiska | the tiny blink | within the center of the circle; at Iktomi | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent blink=Theme at iktomi=Stimulus |
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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