Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 5
He stood beneath the tree looking long and wistfully at the peacock's bright feathers.
Who acts: bird · What happens: stand, look · To what, where: tree
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obl |
| 6 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 stood | advcl |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 looking | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wistfully | cc |
| 9 | wistfully | wistfully | ADV | _ | 7 long | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 feathers | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 peacock | det |
| 12 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 peacock | case |
| 14 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 feathers | amod |
| 15 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 looking | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | bird | the tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | bird not said here | at the peacock's bright feathers; long property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at feather=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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