Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 25
His black eyes never left the painted bags on the rocky walls.
Who acts: black eyes · What happens: not leave, paint · To what, where: painted bags, rocky walls
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 eyes), 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 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eyes | amod |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 left | nsubj |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 left | advmod |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bags | det |
| 7 | painted | paint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 bags | amod |
| 8 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 left | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 walls | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 walls | det |
| 11 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 walls | amod |
| 12 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 left | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | past | foot's black eyes | the painted bags | the rocky walls | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bag=Theme on wall=Location | |||
| 2 | paint | participle | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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