Old Indian Legends, The Tree-bound, sentence 24

But all eyes alike were fixed upon the top of the high bluff.

What happens: fix · To what, where: eyes

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Tree-bound. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 fixed	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 eyes	det
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 fixed	nsubj:pass
4	alike	alike	ADP	_	3 eyes	nmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fixed	aux:pass
6	fixed	fix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	upon	upon	ADP	_	9 top	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 top	det
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fixed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 bluff	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bluff	det
12	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bluff	amod
13	bluff	bluff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 top	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 fixed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fix	past · passive		all eyes				upon the top of the high bluff	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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