Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 129
His keen starving eyes caught sight of a little red clot lying bright upon the green.
Who acts: keen, little red clot, father · What happens: starve, catch, lie, keen, sight · To what, where: eyes, sight, green, little red clot
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 (keen, little red clot, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 keen | nmod:poss |
| 2 | keen | keen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | starving | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 keen | acl |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 starving | obj |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 clot | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 clot | det |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 clot | amod |
| 10 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 clot | amod |
| 11 | clot | clot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sight | nmod |
| 12 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 clot | acl |
| 13 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lying | xcomp |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 green | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 green | det |
| 16 | green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lying | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | starve | gerund | father's keen not said here | eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | father's keen | sight of a little red clot | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | a little red clot not said here | the green | bright property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon green=Location | |||
| 4 | keen | father | nom keen «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | sight | a little red clot | nom sight «cognition 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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