Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 4

They ate up all my nice fat ducks!” muttered he, rocking his body to and fro.

Who acts: wolves · What happens: eat up, mutter, rock, fro · To what, where: nice fat ducks, Iktomi, body

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi's Blanket. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wolves), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 ate	compound:prt
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 ducks	det:predet
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 ducks	nmod:poss
6	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ducks	amod
7	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ducks	compound
8	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct
11	muttered	mutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 muttered	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rocking	punct
14	rocking	rock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 muttered	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 body	nmod:poss
16	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rocking	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 fro	case
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 fro	cc
19	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 rocking	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat up	past	wolves = wolf	my nice fat ducks	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Patient
2	mutter speech: assert in a quote	past	wolves = wolf not said here	Iktomi	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
3	rock in a quote	gerund	wolves = wolf not said here	Iktomi's body	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location body=Theme
4	fro in a quote	infinitive	wolves = wolf not said here		tree rules

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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