Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 34

After many days and nights the search was given up.

What happens: give up · To what, where: search

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Toad and the Boy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 given	obl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 nights	cc
5	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 days	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 search	det
7	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 given	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 given	aux:pass
9	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 given	compound:prt
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past · passive		the search			day		vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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