Old Indian Legends, Iktomi's Blanket, sentence 24

The sunset poured a soft mellow light upon the huge gray stone and the solitary figure beside it.

Who acts: sunset · What happens: pour · To what, where: soft mellow light

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi's Blanket. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunset), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sunset	det
2	sunset	sunset	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poured	nsubj
3	poured	pour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 light	det
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 light	amod
6	mellow	mellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 light	amod
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poured	obj
8	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 stone	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 stone	det
10	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stone	amod
11	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stone	compound
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poured	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 figure	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 figure	det
15	solitary	solitary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 figure	amod
16	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stone	conj
17	beside	beside	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 figure	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 poured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pour	past	the sunset	a soft mellow light				upon the huge gray stone and the solitary figure beside figure	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=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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