Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 14
He stayed at home, making new arrows.
Who acts: baby · What happens: stay, make · To what, where: home, new arrows
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 (baby), 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 stayed | nsubj |
| 2 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 home | case |
| 4 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stayed | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 making | punct |
| 6 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 stayed | advcl |
| 7 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 arrows | amod |
| 8 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 making | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | baby | home | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location | ||||
| 2 | make | gerund | baby not said here | new arrows | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset arrow=Product |
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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