Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 71

So deep was the water in the Eater's stomach that the surface of the swallowed lake almost touched the sky.

Who acts: surface · What happens: be, swallow, touch · To what, where: deep water, stomach, sky

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 (surface), 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 deep	advmod
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 water	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 stomach	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Eater	det
8	Eater	Eater	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 stomach	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Eater	case
10	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	nmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 touched	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 surface	det
13	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 touched	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 lake	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lake	det
16	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 lake	amod
17	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 surface	nmod
18	almost	almost	ADV	_	19 touched	advmod
19	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stomach	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sky	det
21	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 touched	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 water	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the deep water	the Eater's stomach		tree rules
2	swallow	participle					vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	touch	past	the surface of the swallowed lake	the sky		almost property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sky=Co-Theme

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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