Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 143
Across his back dangled a long fringed quiver.
What happens: dangle, fringe · To what, where: long fringed quiver, back
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: 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 | Across | across | ADP | _ | 3 back | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 back | nmod:poss |
| 3 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dangled | obl |
| 4 | dangled | dangle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 quiver | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 quiver | amod |
| 7 | fringed | fringe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 quiver | amod |
| 8 | quiver | quiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dangled | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dangled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dangle | past | a long fringed quiver | father's back | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location quiver=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fringe | participle | tree rules |
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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