Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 30
Your lips and nose look feverish and hungry.
Who acts: lips · What happens: look · To what, where: feverish
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 (lips), 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 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 lips | nmod:poss |
| 2 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 look | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 nose | cc |
| 4 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lips | conj |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | feverish | feverish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 look | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hungry | cc |
| 8 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 feverish | conj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Your lips and nose | feverish | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme feverish=Attribute |
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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