Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Coyote, sentence 44
Humming a dance-song, one from his bundle of mystery songs, Iktomi hopped and darted about at an imaginary dance and feast.
Who acts: Iktomi · What happens: hum, hop, dart about · To what, where: dance song, imaginary dance
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Coyote. 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 | Humming | hum | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 hopped | advcl |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 song | det |
| 3 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 song | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 dance | punct |
| 5 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Humming | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 song | appos |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 bundle | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bundle | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 songs | case |
| 12 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 songs | compound |
| 13 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bundle | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Humming | punct |
| 15 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 hopped | nsubj |
| 16 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 darted | cc |
| 18 | darted | dart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hopped | conj |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 18 darted | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 dance | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dance | det |
| 22 | imaginary | imaginary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dance | amod |
| 23 | dance | dance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 darted | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 feast | cc |
| 25 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dance | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 hopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hum | gerund | Iktomi not said here | a dance song | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hop | past | Iktomi | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | dart about | past | Iktomi not said here | a imaginary dance and feast | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at dance=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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