Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 66

He brought Iya, the Eater; and Iya drank all day at the lake till his belly was like the earth.

Who acts: Iya, belly · What happens: bring, drink, be · To what, where: Iya, 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 (Iya, belly), 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 brought	nsubj
2	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Iya	Iya	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 brought	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Eater	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Eater	det
6	Eater	Eater	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Iya	appos
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 drank	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 drank	cc
9	Iya	Iya	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 drank	nsubj
10	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 brought	conj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drank	obl:unmarked
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 lake	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lake	det
15	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drank	obl
16	till	till	SCONJ	_	22 earth	mark
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 belly	nmod:poss
18	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 earth	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 earth	cop
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 earth	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 earth	det
22	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drank	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	past	Iya	Iya				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument iya=Destination
2	drink	past	Iya		the lake	day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	Iya's belly				like the earth	tree rules

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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