Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 54

The flock of flying feathers wheeled about and lowered over the tree whence came the peacock's cry.

Who acts: flock, peacock · What happens: fly, wheel about, lower, come, cry · To what, where: tree, cry

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, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flock	det
2	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wheeled	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 feathers	case
4	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 feathers	amod
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flock	nmod
6	wheeled	wheel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	ADV	_	6 wheeled	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 lowered	cc
9	lowered	lower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wheeled	conj
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 tree	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lowered	obl
13	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	14 came	advmod
14	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lowered	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 peacock	det
16	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 cry	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 peacock	case
18	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 came	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wheeled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fly	gerund					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	wheel about	past	the flock of flying feathers			about property	vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	lower	past	the flock of flying feathers not said here		the tree		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent over tree=Destination
4	come	past	the flock of flying feathers not said here	the peacock's cry		whence property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cry=Theme
5	cry		the peacock				nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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