Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 73

He struck his knife upward in the Eater's stomach, and the water falling out drowned those people of the village.

Who acts: Iktomi, water · What happens: strike, fall out, drown · To what, where: knife, stomach, water

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 (Iktomi, water), 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 struck	nsubj
2	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 knife	nmod:poss
4	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 struck	obj
5	upward	upward	ADV	_	2 struck	advmod
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	2 struck	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 drowned	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 drowned	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 drowned	nsubj:pass
15	falling	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 water	acl
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 falling	compound:prt
17	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 struck	conj
18	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 people	det
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 drowned	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 village	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 village	det
22	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 people	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 struck	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strike	past	Iktomi	Iktomi's knife	the Eater's stomach	upward property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient
2	fall out	gerund	the water not said here				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	drown	participle · passive		the water			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Patient people=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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