Old Indian Legends, Iya, the Camp-eater, sentence 61

Gradually a deep quiet stole over the camp ground, as one by one the people fell into pleasant dreams.

Who acts: deep quiet, one · What happens: steal, fall · To what, where: camp ground, pleasant dreams

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iya, the Camp-eater. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deep quiet, one), 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	Gradually	gradually	ADV	_	5 stole	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 quiet	det
3	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 quiet	amod
4	quiet	quiet	NOUN	_	5 stole	nsubj
5	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	9 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 ground	det
8	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ground	compound
9	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stole	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fell	punct
11	as	as	ADP	_	12 one	case
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 fell	nsubj
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 one	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 one	nmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 people	det
16	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fell	nsubj
17	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stole	conj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 dreams	case
19	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 dreams	amod
20	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 fell	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	a deep quiet			the camp ground		gradually property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over ground=Location
2	fall	past	one by one					into pleasant dreams result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into dream=Result

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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