Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 28

Seeing the racks of red meat hanging in the yard, he had come to visit the badger family.

Who acts: foot, red meat · What happens: see, hang, come, visit · To what, where: racks, badger family

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 (foot, red meat), 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	Seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 come	advcl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 racks	det
3	racks	rack	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Seeing	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 meat	case
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 meat	amod
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 racks	nmod
7	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 meat	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 yard	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 yard	det
10	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hanging	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Seeing	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 come	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 come	aux
14	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 visit	mark
16	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 come	xcomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 family	det
18	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 family	compound
19	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 visit	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	foot not said here	the racks of red meat		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rack=Stimulus
2	hang	gerund	red meat not said here		in the yard	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in yard=Location
3	come	past · perfect	foot			tree rules
4	visit	to-infinitive	foot not said here	the badger family		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=Co-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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