Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 53

He blew the water all over the people, so that many were burned and could not see.

Who acts: Whssh · What happens: blow, burn, not see · To what, where: water, many

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 (Whssh), 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blew	obj
5	all	all	ADV	_	8 people	advmod
6	over	over	ADP	_	8 people	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 people	det
8	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 blew	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 burned	punct
10	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 burned	mark
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 so	fixed
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 burned	nsubj:pass
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 burned	aux:pass
14	burned	burn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 blew	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 see	cc
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 see	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 see	advmod
18	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 burned	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	blow	past	Whssh	the water	over the people	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	burn	past · passive		many		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
3	not see	could				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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