Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 103
His fur coat was not as black and glossy as those his elders wore.
Who acts: fur coat, elders · What happens: not be, be, wear
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 (fur coat, elders), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 coat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 coat | compound |
| 3 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 black | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 black | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 black | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 black | case |
| 7 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 glossy | cc |
| 9 | glossy | glossy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 black | conj |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 wore | mark |
| 11 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 elders | det |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 elders | nmod:poss |
| 13 | elders | elder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wore | nsubj |
| 14 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 black | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 black | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | beggar's fur coat | black property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | beggar's fur coat not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | wear | past | beggar's elders | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: 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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