Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 100

All the little ruffian bears hooted and shouted “ha-ha!” to see the beggar fall upon his face.

Who acts: little ruffian bears, beggar · What happens: hoot, shout, see, fall · To what, where: face · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (little ruffian bears, beggar), 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	5 bears	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bears	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bears	amod
4	ruffian	ruffian	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bears	compound
5	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hooted	nsubj
6	hooted	hoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shouted	cc
8	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hooted	conj
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 ha	punct
10	ha	ha	INTJ	_	12 ha	discourse
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 ha	punct
12	ha	ha	INTJ	_	8 shouted	discourse
13	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 hooted	punct
14	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 hooted	punct
15	to	to	PART	_	16 see	mark
16	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hooted	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 beggar	det
18	beggar	beggar	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fall	nsubj
19	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 see	ccomp
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 face	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 face	nmod:poss
22	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fall	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hooted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	hoot	past	all little ruffian bears		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shout speech: express	past	all little ruffian bears not said here		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see	to-infinitive	all little ruffian bears not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	fall	infinitive	the beggar	beggar's face	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon face=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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