Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 93
Out they flew through the opening Skiska had made as he rushed forth with his alarm.
Who acts: half, Skiska · What happens: fly, open, make, rush, alarm · To what, where: opening Skiska
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 (half, 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 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | SCONJ | _ | 9 made | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Skiska | det |
| 6 | opening | open | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 Skiska | amod |
| 7 | Skiska | Skiska | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 made | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | aux |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 flew | ccomp |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 rushed | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rushed | nsubj |
| 12 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 made | ccomp |
| 13 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 12 rushed | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 alarm | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 alarm | nmod:poss |
| 16 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rushed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | half | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect · passive | the opening Skiska | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | rush | past | Skiska | with Skiska's alarm; forth property | vn rush-53.2 «NP V PP.eventuality»: agent=Agent with alarm=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | alarm | Skiska | nom alarm «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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