Old Indian Legends, Iktomi and the Fawn, sentence 146

They saw a blue smoke rising, writhing upward till it vanished in the blue ether.

Who acts: grass, blue smoke, smoke · What happens: see, rise, writhe, vanish · To what, where: blue smoke, blue ether

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Iktomi and the Fawn. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grass, blue smoke, smoke), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 smoke	det
4	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 smoke	amod
5	smoke	smoke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 saw	obj
6	rising	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 smoke	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 writhing	punct
8	writhing	writhe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 rising	conj
9	upward	upward	ADV	_	8 writhing	advmod
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	12 vanished	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 vanished	nsubj
12	vanished	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 ether	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ether	det
15	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ether	amod
16	ether	ether	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 vanished	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	grass	a blue smoke			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer smoke=Stimulus
2	rise	gerund	a blue smoke not said here				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	writhe	gerund	a blue smoke not said here			upward property	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	vanish	past	smoke		the blue ether		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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