Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 118

Singing in his small high voice and dragging his feet in long strides after him, as if a prankish spirit oozed out from his heels, he strayed off through the tall grass.

Who acts: prankish spirit, father · What happens: sing, drag, ooze out, stray off · To what, where: small high voice, feet, long strides, heels, tall grass

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 (prankish spirit, 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	Singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 oozed	csubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	6 voice	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 voice	nmod:poss
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 voice	amod
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 voice	amod
6	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Singing	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dragging	cc
8	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Singing	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feet	nmod:poss
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dragging	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 strides	case
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 strides	amod
13	strides	stride	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dragging	obl
14	after	after	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 strides	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 oozed	punct
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 oozed	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 oozed	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 spirit	det
20	prankish	prankish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 spirit	amod
21	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 oozed	nsubj
22	oozed	ooze	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 oozed	compound:prt
24	from	from	ADP	_	26 heels	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 heels	nmod:poss
26	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 oozed	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 strayed	punct
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 strayed	nsubj
29	strayed	stray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 oozed	conj
30	off	off	ADP	_	29 strayed	compound:prt
31	through	through	ADP	_	34 grass	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 grass	det
33	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 grass	amod
34	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 strayed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 oozed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sing speech: express	gerund			father's small high voice	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in voice=Location
2	drag	gerund		father's feet	long strides after father	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme
3	ooze out	past	a prankish spirit		father's heels	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from heel=Source
4	stray off	past	father		the tall grass	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through grass=Trajectory

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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