Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 41

Thus ten summers and as many winters have come and gone since the strange disappearance of the little child.

Who acts: ten summers, little child · What happens: come, go, disappear

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: who acts (ten summers, little child), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	3 summers	advmod
2	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 summers	nummod
3	summers	summer	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 come	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 winters	cc
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 winters	amod
7	winters	winter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 summers	conj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 come	aux
9	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gone	cc
11	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 come	conj
12	since	since	ADP	_	15 disappearance	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 disappearance	det
14	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 disappearance	amod
15	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gone	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 child	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 child	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 child	amod
19	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 disappearance	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	come	present · perfect	ten summers and many winters		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	participle	ten summers and many winters not said here	since the strange disappearance of the little child	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	disappear		the little child		nom disappearance «act intransitive»: of=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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