Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 21
All the while the baby badgers stared hard at the unexpected comer.
Who acts: baby badgers · What happens: stare
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 (baby 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 stared | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 stared | det |
| 3 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 stared | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 badgers | det |
| 5 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 badgers | compound |
| 6 | badgers | badger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stared | nsubj |
| 7 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 stared | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 comer | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 comer | det |
| 11 | unexpected | unexpected | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 comer | amod |
| 12 | comer | comer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stared | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stare | past | the baby badgers | at the unexpected comer; hard property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at comer=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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