Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 58

They threw the Fish and the Turtle into the lake.

Who acts: others · What happens: throw · To what, where: Fish, lake

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), 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 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fish	det
4	Fish	Fish	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Turtle	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Turtle	det
7	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Fish	conj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 lake	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lake	det
10	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 threw	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	others = other	the Fish and the Turtle				into the lake result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer fish=Theme into lake=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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