Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 97

“Ah-ha!” laughed Iktomi, untying the four corners of his blanket, “I shall sit no more hungry within my dwelling.”

Who acts: half · What happens: laugh, untie, sit · To what, where: Iktomi, four corners

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), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 laughed	punct
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	7 laughed	discourse
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
4	ha	ha	INTJ	_	2 Ah	discourse
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ah	punct
7	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 laughed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 untying	punct
10	untying	untie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 laughed	advcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 corners	det
12	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 corners	nummod
13	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 untying	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 blanket	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 blanket	nmod:poss
16	blanket	blanket	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 corners	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sit	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 sit	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 sit	nsubj
20	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 sit	aux
21	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 untying	conj
22	no	no	ADV	_	23 more	advmod
23	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 hungry	advmod
24	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sit	xcomp
25	within	within	ADP	_	27 dwelling	case
26	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 dwelling	nmod:poss
27	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sit	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 laughed	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	laugh	past		Iktomi		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iktomi=Theme
2	untie	gerund		the four corners of IKTOMI's blanket		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corner=Patient
3	sit in a quote	shall	half		within my dwelling; hungry property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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