Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 113
In his breast spread a burning desire to share his food with them.
What happens: spread, burn, share · To what, where: burning desire, breast, food
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 breast | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 breast | nmod:poss |
| 3 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | obl |
| 4 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 desire | det |
| 6 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 desire | amod |
| 7 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spread | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 share | mark |
| 9 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 spread | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 food | nmod:poss |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 share | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 share | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spread | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | past | a burning desire | rest's breast | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent desire=Theme in breast=Destination | ||||
| 2 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | share | to-infinitive | rest's food | with badgers = badger | tree rules |
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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