Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 23

He blew his red swollen nose with a loud noise so that his head came off his slender neck, and he was fallen upon the grass.

Who acts: Fly, head · What happens: blow, come off, fall · To what, where: red swollen nose, slender neck, Fly

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, head), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 blew	nsubj
2	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nose	nmod:poss
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nose	amod
5	swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nose	amod
6	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blew	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 noise	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 noise	det
9	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 noise	amod
10	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blew	obl
11	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	15 came	mark
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 so	fixed
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 head	nmod:poss
14	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 blew	advcl
16	off	off	ADP	_	19 neck	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 neck	nmod:poss
18	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 neck	amod
19	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fallen	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 fallen	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 fallen	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fallen	aux:pass
24	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 came	conj
25	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 grass	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 grass	det
27	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fallen	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	blow	past	Fly	Fly's red swollen nose	with a loud noise	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent nose=Patient
2	come off	past	Fly's head	Fly's slender neck		tree rules
3	fall	past · passive		Fly	upon the grass	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: subject=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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