Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 30

While one of the pair strutted about with a head turned aside as if dazzled by his own bright-tinted tail feathers, the other bird soared slowly upward.

Who acts: one, other bird · What happens: strut, turn, dazzle, tint, soar

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 (one, other bird), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	6 strutted	mark
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 strutted	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 pair	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pair	det
5	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	nmod
6	strutted	strut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 soared	advcl
7	about	about	ADV	_	6 strutted	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 head	det
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 strutted	obl
11	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 strutted	advcl
12	aside	aside	ADV	_	11 turned	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 dazzled	mark
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 dazzled	mark
15	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 turned	advcl
16	by	by	ADP	_	23 feathers	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 feathers	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 feathers	amod
19	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tinted	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 bright	punct
21	tinted	tint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 feathers	amod
22	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 feathers	compound
23	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 dazzled	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 strutted	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bird	det
26	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bird	amod
27	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 soared	nsubj
28	soared	soar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
29	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	30 upward	advmod
30	upward	upward	ADV	_	28 soared	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 soared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	strut	participle	one of the pair	with a head; about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	turn	participle	one of the pair not said here	aside property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	dazzle	participle	one of the pair not said here	by peacock's own tinted tail feathers	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	tint	participle			vn coloring-24 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	soar	past	the other bird	upward property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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