Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 98
Homeward he trudged along with nice fat ducks in his blanket.
Who acts: Homeward · What happens: trudge · To what, where: blanket
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 (Homeward), 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 | Homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trudged | nsubj |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 trudged | nsubj |
| 3 | trudged | trudge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 trudged | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 ducks | case |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ducks | amod |
| 7 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ducks | compound |
| 8 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 trudged | obl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 blanket | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 blanket | nmod:poss |
| 11 | blanket | blanket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 trudged | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trudged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trudge | past | Homeward | Homeward's blanket | with nice fat ducks; along property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in blanket=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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