Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 5

They descended a deep valley, the Fire going foremost until they came to a river.

Who acts: others, Fire · What happens: descend, go, come · To what, where: deep valley, river

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 (others, Fire), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 descended	nsubj
2	descended	descend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 valley	det
4	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 valley	amod
5	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 descended	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Fire	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Fire	det
8	Fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 valley	appos
9	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 Fire	acl
10	foremost	foremost	ADV	_	9 going	advmod
11	until	until	SCONJ	_	13 came	mark
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 came	nsubj
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 descended	advcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 river	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 river	det
16	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 descended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	descend	past	others = other	a deep valley			vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location valley=Theme
2	go	gerund	the Fire not said here			foremost property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	come	past	others = other		a river		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to river=Initial_Location

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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