Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 27
Saying this the peacock touched Iktomi with the tips of his wings.
Who acts: peacock · What happens: say, touch · To what, where: this, Iktomi · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (peacock), 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 | Saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 touched | csubj |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Saying | obj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 peacock | det |
| 4 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | nsubj |
| 5 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 touched | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 tips | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tips | det |
| 9 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 touched | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wings | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wings | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 tips | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent this=Topic | |||||
| 2 | touch | past | the peacock | Iktomi | with the tips of Iktomi's wings | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent iktomi=Experiencer with tip=Instrument |
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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