Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 120
When directly in front of the entrance way, he made a quick side kick with his left hind leg.
Who acts: father · What happens: make · To what, where: quick side kick, front
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 directly | advmod |
| 2 | directly | directly | ADV | _ | 11 made | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 front | case |
| 4 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 way | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 way | compound |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 front | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 front | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 kick | det |
| 13 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 kick | amod |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kick | compound |
| 15 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 leg | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 leg | nmod:poss |
| 18 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 leg | amod |
| 19 | hind | hind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 leg | amod |
| 20 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 kick | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | father | a quick side kick | front of the entrance way | with father's left hind leg; directly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kick=Product |
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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