Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 43

Toward the latter part of the tenth season when, one by one, the teepees were folded and the families went away from the lake region, the mother walked again along the lake shore weeping.

Who acts: families, mother · What happens: fold, go away, walk · To what, where: teepees, lake region, shore weeping

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 (families, mother), 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	Toward	toward	ADP	_	4 part	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 part	det
3	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 part	amod
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 folded	obl
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 season	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 season	det
7	tenth	tenth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 season	amod
8	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 part	nmod
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 season	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 season	appos
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 one	case
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 one	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 part	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 teepees	det
16	teepees	teepee	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 folded	nsubj:pass
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 folded	aux:pass
18	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 went	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 families	det
21	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 went	nsubj
22	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 folded	conj
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 went	advmod
24	from	from	ADP	_	27 region	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 region	det
26	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 region	compound
27	region	region	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 went	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 walked	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mother	det
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 walked	nsubj
31	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 region	acl:relcl
32	again	again	ADV	_	31 walked	advmod
33	along	along	ADP	_	37 weeping	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 weeping	det
35	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 shore	compound
36	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 weeping	compound
37	weeping	weeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 walked	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 folded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fold	past · passive		the teepees			toward the latter part of the tenth season	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	go away	past	the families		the lake region		away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from region=Initial_Location
3	walk	past	the mother	the lake region not said here	the shore weeping	again		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent region=Theme along weeping=Trajectory

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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