Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 134

Sprinkling water upon the heated heap of sacred stones within, he made ready to purge his body.

Who acts: father · What happens: sprinkle, heat, make, purge · To what, where: water, heated heap, body

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Badger and the Bear. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father), 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	Sprinkling	sprinkle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 made	advcl
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sprinkling	obj
3	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 heap	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heap	det
5	heated	heat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 heap	amod
6	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sprinkling	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 stones	case
8	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stones	amod
9	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heap	nmod
10	within	within	ADP	_	1 Sprinkling	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sprinkling	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 made	xcomp
15	to	to	PART	_	16 purge	mark
16	purge	purge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ready	xcomp
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 body	nmod:poss
18	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 purge	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sprinkle	gerund	father not said here	water	the heated heap of sacred stones		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme upon heap=Destination
2	heat	participle					vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	make	past	father			ready property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	purge	to-infinitive	father not said here	father's body			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent body=Source

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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