Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 3

With ankles crossed together around a pot of soup, Iktomi bent over some delicious boiled fish.

Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: cross, bend, boil · To what, where: ankles, pot

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Muskrat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iktomi), 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	With	with	ADP	_	2 ankles	case
2	ankles	ankle	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bent	obl
3	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 ankles	acl
4	together	together	ADV	_	3 crossed	advmod
5	around	around	ADP	_	7 pot	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pot	det
7	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crossed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 soup	case
9	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pot	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ankles	punct
11	Iktomi	Iktomi	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 bent	nsubj
12	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	over	over	ADP	_	17 fish	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 fish	nsubj
15	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 fish	amod
16	boiled	boil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 fish	amod
17	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bent	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 bent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cross	participle		ankles not said here	a pot of soup	together property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme around pot=Initial_Location
2	bend	past	Iktomi			with ankles; over delicious boiled fish	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over fish=Location
3	boil	participle					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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