Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 86
They bounced on all fours like balls.
Who acts: Others · What happens: bounce · To what, where: fours
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 (Others), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 bounced | nsubj |
| 2 | bounced | bounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 fours | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 fours | det |
| 5 | fours | four | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bounced | obl |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 balls | case |
| 7 | balls | ball | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fours | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bounced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bounce | past | Others = other | all fours like balls | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on four=Trajectory |
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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