Old Indian Legends, Dance in a Buffalo Skull, sentence 29

All unconscious of those fearful eyes, the happy mice nibbled at dried roots and venison.

What happens: nibble, dry · To what, where: happy mice

This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, Dance in a Buffalo Skull. 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 unconscious	det
2	unconscious	unconscious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 eyes	case
4	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 eyes	det
5	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eyes	amod
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 unconscious	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mice	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mice	det
9	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mice	amod
10	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eyes	appos
11	nibbled	nibble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 mice	acl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 roots	case
13	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 roots	amod
14	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 nibbled	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 venison	cc
16	venison	venison	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 roots	conj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 unconscious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nibble	participle		the happy mice not said here				at dried roots and venison	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at root=Patient
2	dry	participle							vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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