Old Indian Legends, The Toad and the Boy, sentence 87
Very closely watched the old toad mother her stolen human son.
What happens: watch, steal · To what, where: old toad mother
This is a sentence of «Old Indian Legends» by Zitkala-Sa, The Toad and the Boy. 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 watched | advmod |
| 2 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 3 watched | advmod |
| 3 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mother | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mother | amod |
| 6 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mother | compound |
| 7 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 watched | obj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 son | amod |
| 10 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 son | amod |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 watched | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | the old toad mother | closely property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: agent=Agent mother=Theme son=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | steal | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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