Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 101

There was one, however, who did not even smile.

Who acts: one · What happens: be, not smile

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 (one), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 was	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 smile	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	11 smile	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 smile	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 smile	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 smile	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 smile	advmod
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 smile	advmod
11	smile	smile	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 was	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	one			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not smile	past · do-support						however property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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