Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 128

He fell where the grass was wet with the blood of the newly carved buffalo.

Who acts: father, grass · What happens: fall, be, carve

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, grass), 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 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 wet	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grass	det
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wet	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wet	cop
7	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fell	ccomp
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 blood	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 blood	det
10	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wet	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	15 buffalo	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 buffalo	det
13	newly	newly	ADV	_	14 carved	advmod
14	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 buffalo	amod
15	buffalo	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blood	nmod
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	fall	past	father		vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the grass	with the blood of the carved buffalo; wet property	tree rules
3	carve	participle		newly property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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