Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 49

The flock of chattering birds flew by with whirring wings.

Who acts: flock · What happens: chatter, fly, whir

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 (flock), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flock	det
2	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flew	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 birds	case
4	chattering	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 birds	amod
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flock	nmod
6	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 wings	case
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 wings	case
9	whirring	whir	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 wings	amod
10	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flew	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	chatter	gerund			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	fly	past	the flock of chattering birds	by whirring wings	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by wing=Location
3	whir	gerund			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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