Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 167
He wondered what had inspired the big bear to such a generous deed.
Who acts: distance · What happens: wonder, inspire · To what, where: big bear
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wondered | nsubj |
| 2 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 inspired | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 inspired | aux |
| 5 | inspired | inspire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 wondered | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bear | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bear | amod |
| 8 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 inspired | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 deed | case |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 deed | det:predet |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 deed | det |
| 12 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 deed | amod |
| 13 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bear | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | past | distance | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | inspire | past · perfect · passive | the big bear | to such generous deed | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer bear=Result |
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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