Old Indian Legends, Shooting of the Red Eagle, sentence 47
Grown-ups and children sneered and hooted at Iktomi's disgrace.
Who acts: Grown ups, Iktomi · What happens: grow, sneer, hoot, disgrace · To what, where: disgrace
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Shooting of the Red Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grown ups, Iktomi), 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 | Grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ups | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grown | punct |
| 3 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 sneered | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 children | cc |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ups | conj |
| 6 | sneered | sneer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hooted | cc |
| 8 | hooted | hoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 sneered | conj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 disgrace | case |
| 10 | Iktomi | Iktomi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 disgrace | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 Iktomi | case |
| 12 | disgrace | disgrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hooted | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sneered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | sneer | participle | Grown ups and children | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | hoot | participle | Grown ups and children not said here | Iktomi's disgrace | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at disgrace=Location | ||||
| 4 | disgrace | Iktomi | nom disgrace «state transitive»: 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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