Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 17
All of a sudden there was heard a heavy footfall near the entrance way.
What happens: hear · To what, where: heavy footfall, entrance way
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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg338:505): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | All | all | ADV | _ | 7 heard | advmod |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 1 All | fixed |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 1 All | fixed |
| 4 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 All | fixed |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 7 heard | expl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heard | aux:pass |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 footfall | det |
| 9 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 footfall | amod |
| 10 | footfall | footfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | near | near | ADP | _ | 14 way | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 way | det |
| 13 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 way | compound |
| 14 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | a heavy footfall | the entrance way; there | all property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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