Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 92
There beside Iktomi's bundle of songs lay half of their crowd--flat on their backs.
Who acts: songs · What happens: lay · To what, where: half, bundle
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 (songs), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 lay | expl |
| 2 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 5 bundle | case |
| 3 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 bundle | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 Iktomi | case |
| 5 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lay | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 songs | case |
| 7 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lay | nsubj |
| 8 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 8 lay | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 crowd | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 crowd | nmod:poss |
| 12 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 half | nmod |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 flat | punct |
| 14 | flat | flat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 half | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 backs | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 backs | nmod:poss |
| 17 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lay | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | songs | half of half's crowd and flat | Iktomi's bundle; there | on half's backs | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent half=Theme beside bundle=Destination |
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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