Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 180
Singing and laughing, the badgers returned to their own dwelling.
Who acts: badgers · What happens: sing, laugh, return
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 (badgers), 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 | Singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 returned | advcl |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 laughing | cc |
| 3 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Singing | conj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Singing | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 badgers | det |
| 6 | badgers | badger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 returned | nsubj |
| 7 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 dwelling | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 10 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 dwelling | amod |
| 11 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 returned | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | gerund | the badgers not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | laugh | gerund | the badgers not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | return | past | the badgers | to badgers's own dwelling result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to dwelling=Result |
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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