Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 110
Thus again, though the rest laughed aloud at the badger's fall, he did not see the joke.
Who acts: rest · What happens: laugh, not see · To what, where: fall, joke
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 (rest), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 again | advmod |
| 2 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 laughed | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughed | punct |
| 4 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 7 laughed | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rest | det |
| 6 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laughed | nsubj |
| 7 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 7 laughed | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 fall | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 badger | det |
| 11 | badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fall | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 badger | case |
| 13 | fall | fall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laughed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 see | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 see | nsubj |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 see | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 see | advmod |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 laughed | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 joke | det |
| 20 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 see | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the rest | the badger's fall | again | aloud property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | not see | past · do-support | rest | the joke | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer joke=Stimulus |
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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