Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 125

He stood watching the big bear cutting thin slices of meat.

Who acts: father, big bear · What happens: stand, watch, cut, slice · To what, where: big bear, thin slices, meat

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, big bear), 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	2 stood	nsubj
2	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 stood	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bear	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bear	amod
6	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 watching	obj
7	cutting	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 bear	acl
8	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 slices	amod
9	slices	slice	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cutting	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 meat	case
11	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 slices	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	stand	past	father		vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	watch	gerund	father not said here	the big bear	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Theme
3	cut	gerund	the big bear not said here	thin slices of meat	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset slice=Product
4	slice			meat	nom slice «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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