Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 87
Then they pitched forward, kicking their heels in the air.
Who acts: Others · What happens: pitch, kick · To what, where: heels, air
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 pitched | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pitched | nsubj |
| 3 | pitched | pitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 pitched | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 kicking | punct |
| 6 | kicking | kick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 pitched | advcl |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heels | nmod:poss |
| 8 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kicking | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kicking | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pitched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pitch | past | Others = other | then | forward property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | kick | gerund | Others = other not said here | Others's heels | the air | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent heel=Patient in air=Location |
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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