Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 161
As they approached, the bear stood erect with a hand on his thigh.
Who acts: arrows, bear · What happens: approach, stand · To what, where: thigh
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 (arrows, bear), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 approached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 approached | nsubj |
| 3 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 approached | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bear | det |
| 6 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | erect | erect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stood | xcomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hand | det |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 thigh | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 thigh | nmod:poss |
| 14 | thigh | thigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | arrows = arrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | past | the bear | distance's thigh | with a hand; erect property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on thigh=Location |
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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