Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Muskrat, sentence 75
The sound did not rise up out of the lake, for it came down from overhead.
Who acts: sound · What happens: not rise up, come down · To what, where: lake
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Muskrat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound), 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 sound | det |
| 2 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rise | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rise | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 rise | advmod |
| 5 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 rise | compound:prt |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 lake | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 lake | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lake | det |
| 10 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rise | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 came | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 rise | advcl |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 overhead | case |
| 17 | overhead | overhead | ADV | _ | 14 came | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not rise up | past · do-support | the sound | the lake | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent out lake=Location | ||||
| 2 | come down | past | sound | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from overhead=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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