Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 29
Pluming his gorgeous feathers, he ruffled his neck and flapped his strong wings together.
Who acts: eagle · What happens: plume, ruffle, flap · To what, where: gorgeous feathers, neck, strong wings
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eagle), 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 | Pluming | plume | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 ruffled | advcl |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 3 | gorgeous | gorgeous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feathers | amod |
| 4 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Pluming | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pluming | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ruffled | nsubj |
| 7 | ruffled | ruffle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 neck | nmod:poss |
| 9 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ruffled | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 flapped | cc |
| 11 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ruffled | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wings | nmod:poss |
| 13 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wings | amod |
| 14 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 flapped | obj |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 11 flapped | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ruffled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plume | gerund | eagle not said here | eagle's gorgeous feathers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ruffle | past | eagle | eagle's neck | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus neck=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | flap | past | eagle not said here | eagle's strong wings | together property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
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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