Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 178
We must flee to the forest for fear of the avenger who carries the magic arrow.”
Who acts: We, avenger · What happens: flee, carry, fear · To what, where: forest, magic arrow, avenger
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 (We, avenger), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 flee | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 flee | aux |
| 3 | flee | flee | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 forest | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 forest | det |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flee | obl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 fear | case |
| 8 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flee | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 avenger | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 avenger | det |
| 11 | avenger | avenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fear | nmod |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 carries | nsubj |
| 13 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 avenger | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 arrow | det |
| 15 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 arrow | amod |
| 16 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carries | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flee | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 flee | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | must | We | the forest | for fear of the avenger | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to forest=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | carry | present | the avenger | the magic arrow | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fear | the avenger | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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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