Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 59

Toward the center of the large lake the Turtle dived.

What happens: dive · To what, where: center

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: 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	Toward	toward	ADP	_	3 center	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 center	det
3	center	center	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dived	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 lake	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lake	det
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lake	amod
7	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 center	nmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Turtle	det
9	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lake	appos
10	dived	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 dived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dive	past				the center of the large lake			vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward center=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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