Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 1

ON the edge of a forest there lived a large family of badgers.

What happens: live · To what, where: large family, edge

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: 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	ON	on	ADP	_	3 edge	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 edge	det
3	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 edge	nmod
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 lived	advmod
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 family	det
10	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 family	amod
11	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 badgers	case
13	badgers	badger	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 family	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a large family of badgers		the edge of a forest; there			vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme family=Location

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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