Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 33
After a little while the vain peacock, dizzy with his bright colors, spread out his wings and lit on the same branch with the elder bird.
Who acts: bright colors · What happens: spread out, lit · To what, where: wings, same branch
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 (bright colors), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 little | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 little | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 peacock | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 peacock | det |
| 6 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 peacock | amod |
| 7 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 little | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dizzy | punct |
| 9 | dizzy | dizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 peacock | amod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 colors | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 colors | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 colors | amod |
| 13 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dizzy | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spread | punct |
| 15 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 colors | acl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 spread | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wings | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 spread | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 lit | cc |
| 20 | lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 spread | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 branch | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 branch | det |
| 23 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 branch | amod |
| 24 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lit | obl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 bird | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 bird | det |
| 27 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bird | amod |
| 28 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 branch | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 little | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread out | participle | bird's bright colors not said here | bird's wings | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lit | participle | bird's bright colors not said here | the same branch with the elder bird | tree rules |
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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