Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 51

When a pair of strong hands lifted the Fish over the sputtering water, he put his mouth downward.

Who acts: pair · What happens: lift, sputter, put · To what, where: Fish, sputtering water, mouth

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 (pair), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 lifted	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pair	det
3	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lifted	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hands	case
5	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hands	amod
6	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 pair	nmod
7	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 put	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Fish	det
9	Fish	Fish	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lifted	obj
10	over	over	ADP	_	13 water	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
12	sputtering	sputter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 water	amod
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lifted	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lifted	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 put	nsubj
16	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mouth	nmod:poss
18	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obj
19	downward	downward	ADV	_	16 put	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lift	past	a pair of strong hands	the Fish	the sputtering water		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fish=Theme over water=Destination
2	sputter	gerund					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	put	past	pair	pair's mouth		downward property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mouth=Goal

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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