Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 23

His black nose was dry and parched.

Who acts: black nose · What happens: be, parch

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 (black nose), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 nose	nmod:poss
2	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 nose	amod
3	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dry	cop
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 parched	cc
7	parched	parch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dry	conj
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	foot's black nose					dry property	tree rules
2	parch	participle	foot's black nose not said here						vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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