Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 139
Then he arose, and with a quiet dignity stepped out of the lodge.
Who acts: father · What happens: arise, step out · To what, where: lodge
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 arose | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arose | nsubj |
| 3 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stepped | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stepped | cc |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 dignity | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 dignity | det |
| 8 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dignity | amod |
| 9 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stepped | obl |
| 10 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arose | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 lodge | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 lodge | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lodge | det |
| 14 | lodge | lodge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stepped | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | father | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | step out | past | father not said here | the lodge | with a quiet dignity | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location lodge=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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