Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 119

He was ambling toward the small round hut.

Who acts: father · What happens: amble · To what, where: small round hut

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ambling	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ambling	aux
3	ambling	amble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	toward	toward	ADP	_	8 hut	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hut	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hut	amod
7	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hut	amod
8	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ambling	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 ambling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	amble	past · progressive	father			the small round hut			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward hut=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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