Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 130
Looking fearfully toward the bear and seeing his head was turned away, he snatched up the small thick blood.
Who acts: father · What happens: look, see, turn away, snatch up · To what, where: head, small thick blood · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | Looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 snatched | advcl |
| 2 | fearfully | fearfully | ADV | _ | 1 Looking | advmod |
| 3 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 5 bear | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bear | det |
| 5 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Looking | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 seeing | cc |
| 7 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Looking | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turned | aux:pass |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 seeing | ccomp |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 turned | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Looking | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 snatched | nsubj |
| 15 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 snatched | compound:prt |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 blood | det |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 blood | amod |
| 19 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 blood | amod |
| 20 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 snatched | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 snatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | father not said here | toward the bear; fearfully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent toward bear=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | father not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | turn away | past · passive | father's head | away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | snatch up | past | father | the small thick blood | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme |
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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