Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 117

In an instant, as if his good intention had passed from him, he was singing happily and skipping around his father at work.

Who acts: father · What happens: pass, sing, skip, intend · To what, where: good intention, instant, work

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 (father), 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 instant	case
2	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 instant	det
3	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 passed	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 instant	punct
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 passed	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 passed	mark
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 intention	nmod:poss
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 intention	amod
9	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 passed	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 passed	aux
11	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	from	from	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 passed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 singing	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 singing	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 singing	aux
17	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 passed	advcl
18	happily	happily	ADV	_	17 singing	advmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 skipping	cc
20	skipping	skip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 singing	conj
21	around	around	ADP	_	23 father	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 father	nmod:poss
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 skipping	obl
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 work	case
25	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 skipping	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	past · perfect · passive		father's good intention	a instant	from father	vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from he=Initial_Location
2	sing speech: express	past · progressive	father			happily property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	skip	gerund	father not said here		work	around father's father	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around father=Trajectory
4	intend		father				nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=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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