Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 174
The long strong teeth of the bear rattled against each other, and his shaggy body shook with fear.
Who acts: long strong teeth, shaggy body · What happens: rattle, shake · To what, where: each
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 (long strong teeth, shaggy body), 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 | 4 teeth | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 teeth | amod |
| 3 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 teeth | amod |
| 4 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 rattled | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bear | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bear | det |
| 7 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 teeth | nmod |
| 8 | rattled | rattle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | against | against | ADP | _ | 10 each | case |
| 10 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 8 rattled | obl |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 each | fixed |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shook | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 shook | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 body | nmod:poss |
| 15 | shaggy | shaggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 body | amod |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shook | nsubj |
| 17 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rattled | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 fear | case |
| 19 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shook | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rattled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rattle | past | the long strong teeth of the bear | each | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against each=Location | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | father's shaggy body | with fear | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with fear=Co-Patient |
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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