Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 158
He narrowed his eyes at the tall stranger walking beside him.
Who acts: distance, tall stranger · What happens: narrow, walk · To what, where: eyes, tall stranger
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 (distance, tall stranger), 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 narrowed | nsubj |
| 2 | narrowed | narrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 narrowed | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 stranger | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stranger | det |
| 7 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stranger | amod |
| 8 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 narrowed | obl |
| 9 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 stranger | acl |
| 10 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 walking | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 narrowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | narrow | past | distance | distance's eyes | the tall stranger | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | walk | gerund | the tall stranger not said here | beside distance | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside he=Trajectory |
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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