Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 19

In stepped a large black foot with great big claws.

What happens: step · To what, where: large black foot

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	In	in	ADP	_	2 stepped	case
2	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 foot	det
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 foot	amod
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 foot	amod
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stepped	obj
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 claws	case
8	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 claws	amod
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 claws	amod
10	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 foot	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stepped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	step	past		a large black foot				with great big claws	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location foot=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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