Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Ducks, sentence 152

All too late, the sturdy breeze returned, and, passing by, pulled apart the broken edges of the tree.

Who acts: sturdy breeze · What happens: return, pass by, pull apart, break · To what, where: broken edges

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Ducks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sturdy breeze), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 late	nsubj
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 late	advmod
3	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 returned	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 breeze	det
6	sturdy	sturdy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 breeze	amod
7	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 returned	nsubj
8	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 late	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pulled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pulled	cc
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 passing	punct
12	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 pulled	ccomp
13	by	by	ADP	_	12 passing	fixed
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 passing	punct
15	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 late	conj
16	apart	apart	ADV	_	15 pulled	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 edges	det
18	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 edges	amod
19	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pulled	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 tree	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 tree	det
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 edges	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 late	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	return	past	the sturdy breeze			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pass by	gerund				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pull apart	past		the broken edges of the tree	apart property	tree rules
4	break	participle				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

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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