Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 61
The Fish swam hither and thither with such frolicsome darts that his back fin made the water fly.
Who acts: Fish, back fin · What happens: swim, make · To what, where: such frolicsome darts
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 (Fish, back fin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fish | det |
| 2 | Fish | Fish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 swam | nsubj |
| 3 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 3 swam | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 thither | cc |
| 6 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 4 hither | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 darts | case |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 darts | amod |
| 9 | frolicsome | frolicsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 darts | amod |
| 10 | darts | dart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swam | obl |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 made | obj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 fin | nmod:poss |
| 13 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fin | compound |
| 14 | fin | fin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | nsubj |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 darts | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 fly | det |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fly | compound |
| 18 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | the Fish | with such frolicsome darts; hither property | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with dart=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Fish's back fin | such frolicsome darts | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset that=Beneficiary fly=Product |
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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