Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 16
Their small black eyes danced with delight as they watched the gay colors painted upon the arrows.
Who acts: small black eyes, eyes · What happens: dance, watch, paint · To what, where: gay colors, 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 (small black eyes, eyes), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eyes | amod |
| 3 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 eyes | amod |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 danced | nsubj |
| 5 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 delight | case |
| 7 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 danced | obl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 watched | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 watched | nsubj |
| 10 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 danced | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 colors | det |
| 12 | gay | gay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 colors | amod |
| 13 | colors | color | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 watched | obj |
| 14 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 colors | acl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 arrows | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 arrows | det |
| 17 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 painted | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dance | participle | children's small black eyes | with delight | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | watch | past | eyes = eye | the gay colors | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent color=Theme | ||||
| 3 | paint | participle | the gay colors not said here | the arrows | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon arrow=Destination |
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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