Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 18
The oval-shaped door-frame was pushed aside.
What happens: push · To what, where: oval shaped door frame
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.
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 | 7 frame | det |
| 2 | oval | oval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 frame | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 oval | punct |
| 4 | shaped | shaped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 frame | amod |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 frame | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 door | punct |
| 7 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 pushed | aux:pass |
| 9 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 9 pushed | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past · passive | the oval shaped door frame | aside property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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