Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 168
The young avenger waited till the badger took the long knife in his hand.
Who acts: young avenger, badger · What happens: wait, take · To what, where: long knife, hand
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 (young avenger, badger), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 avenger | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 avenger | amod |
| 3 | avenger | avenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waited | nsubj |
| 4 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 8 took | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 badger | det |
| 7 | badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waited | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 knife | det |
| 10 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 knife | amod |
| 11 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | the young avenger | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | the badger | the long knife | avenger's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent knife=Value in hand=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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