Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 74

Now when the great water fell into its own bed, the Fish and the Turtle came to the shore.

Who acts: great water, Fish · What happens: fall, come · To what, where: own bed, shore

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 (great water, Fish), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 fell	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 fell	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 water	det
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 water	amod
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	nsubj
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	10 bed	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bed	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bed	amod
10	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Fish	det
13	Fish	Fish	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Turtle	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Turtle	det
16	Turtle	Turtle	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Fish	conj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fell	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 shore	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 shore	det
20	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the great water				now	into water's own bed result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into bed=Result
2	come	past	the Fish and the Turtle			the shore			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shore=Initial_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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