Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 165
Cut your favorite pieces from the deer,” said he, holding out a long thin blade.
Who acts: distance · What happens: cut, say, hold out · To what, where: favorite pieces, deer, long thin blade · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | Cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 pieces | nmod:poss |
| 3 | favorite | favorite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pieces | compound |
| 4 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cut | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 deer | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 deer | det |
| 7 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Cut | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cut | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cut | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 holding | punct |
| 13 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 holding | compound:prt |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 blade | det |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 blade | amod |
| 17 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 blade | amod |
| 18 | blade | blade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 holding | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | infinitive | your favorite pieces | the deer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset piece=Product from deer=Material | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | distance | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | hold out in a quote | gerund | distance not said here | a long thin blade | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blade=Theme |
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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