Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Turtle, sentence 64
Scarcely had it become leveled and smooth than there bubbled up many black spots.
Who acts: Scarcely, water · What happens: have, become, level, bubble up · To what, where: water
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Turtle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Scarcely, water), 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 | Scarcely | Scarcely | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 had | obj |
| 4 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 had | xcomp |
| 5 | leveled | level | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 become | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 smooth | cc |
| 7 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 become | conj |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 spots | case |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 bubbled | advmod |
| 10 | bubbled | bubble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 spots | amod |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 bubbled | compound:prt |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 spots | amod |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 spots | amod |
| 14 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 smooth | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Scarcely | water | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | become | participle | water not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | level | participle | water not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | bubble up | participle | there | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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