Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 22
After the second foot, in peeped the head of a big black bear!
What happens: peep · To what, where: head
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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 foot | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 foot | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 foot | amod |
| 4 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 peeped | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 foot | punct |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 peeped | mark |
| 7 | peeped | peep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 head | det |
| 9 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 peeped | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bear | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bear | det |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bear | amod |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bear | amod |
| 14 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 head | nmod |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 peeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep | past | the head of a big black bear | after the second foot | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=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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