Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 22

The more he grieved, the louder he cried, till his body shook with great violence.

Who acts: Fly, body · What happens: grieve, cry, shake

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Warlike Seven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fly, body), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 more	det
2	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 grieved	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grieved	nsubj
4	grieved	grieve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cried	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 louder	det
7	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 cried	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 cried	nsubj
9	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grieved	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 shook	punct
11	till	till	SCONJ	_	14 shook	mark
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 body	nmod:poss
13	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shook	nsubj
14	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cried	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 violence	case
16	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 violence	amod
17	violence	violence	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shook	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 grieved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	grieve	past	Fly		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	cry speech: express	past	Fly		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	shake	past	Fly's body	with great violence	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with violence=Co-Patient

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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