Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 179
Out they hurried, all the bears, and disappeared into the woods.
Who acts: arrows · What happens: hurry, disappear · To what, where: bears, woods
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 (arrows), 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 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 3 hurried | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hurried | nsubj |
| 3 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bears | punct |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 bears | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bears | det |
| 7 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hurried | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 disappeared | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 disappeared | cc |
| 10 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hurried | conj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 woods | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woods | det |
| 13 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 disappeared | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hurried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry | past | arrows = arrow | all bears | out property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | disappear | past | arrows = arrow not said here | the woods | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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