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title: So deep was the water in the Eater's stomach that the surface of the… — Old Indian Legends · tree and pragmatics
description: So deep was the water in the Eater's stomach that the surface of the swallowed lake almost touched the sky. Who acts: surface. A sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Warlike Seven, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Old Indian Legends, The Warlike Seven, sentence 71

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So deep was the water in the Eater's stomach that the surface of the swallowed lake almost touched the sky.

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**Who acts:** surface · **What happens:** be, swallow, touch · **To what, where:** deep water, stomach, sky

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This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Warlike Seven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (surface), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg338:15:71
# text = So deep was the water in the Eater's stomach that the surface of the swallowed lake almost touched the sky.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Eater	Eater	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	's	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	stomach	stomach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	swallowed	swallow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the deep water |  | the Eater's stomach |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **swallow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **touch** | past | the surface of the swallowed lake | the sky |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sky=Co-Theme |

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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.

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**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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