Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 20

Hereupon the peacock spread out both his wings, and scarce moving them, he sailed slowly down upon the ground.

Who acts: Hereupon · What happens: spread out, move, sail · To what, where: wings

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Fawn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hereupon), 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	Hereupon	Hereupon	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 spread	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 peacock	det
3	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spread	nsubj
4	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 spread	compound:prt
6	both	both	CCONJ	_	8 wings	cc:preconj
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wings	nmod:poss
8	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 spread	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 moving	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 moving	cc
11	scarce	scarce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 moving	compound
12	moving	move	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 spread	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 moving	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sailed	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sailed	nsubj
16	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 spread	conj
17	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	18 down	advmod
18	down	down	ADV	_	16 sailed	advmod
19	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 ground	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ground	det
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sailed	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spread	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	spread out	past	Hereupon	peacock's wings		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	move	gerund	Hereupon not said here	wings = wing		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	sail	past	Hereupon		upon the ground; down property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent 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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