Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 10
This bag was like a huge stiff envelope, but far more beautiful to see, for it was painted all over with many bright colors.
Who acts: bag, huge stiff envelope · What happens: be, see, paint · To what, where: bag
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: who acts (bag, huge stiff envelope), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 bag | det |
| 2 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 envelope | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 envelope | cop |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 envelope | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 envelope | det |
| 6 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 envelope | amod |
| 7 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 envelope | amod |
| 8 | envelope | envelope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beautiful | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 beautiful | cc |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 more | advmod |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 beautiful | advmod |
| 13 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 envelope | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 beautiful | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 painted | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 painted | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 painted | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 painted | aux:pass |
| 20 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 envelope | acl |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 over | advmod |
| 22 | over | over | ADV | _ | 20 painted | advmod |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 colors | case |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 colors | amod |
| 25 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 colors | amod |
| 26 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 painted | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 envelope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this bag | like a huge stiff envelope | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | this bag not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | this bag not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | paint | past · passive | a huge stiff envelope not said here | bag | with many bright colors; over property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with color=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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