Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 34
I saw your racks of red fresh meat, and knowing your heart is kind, I came hither.
Who acts: I, knowing · What happens: see, know, be, come · To what, where: racks, heart
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 (I, knowing), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 racks | nmod:poss |
| 4 | racks | rack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 meat | case |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 meat | amod |
| 7 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 meat | amod |
| 8 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 racks | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 kind | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 kind | cc |
| 11 | knowing | know | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 kind | csubj |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knowing | obj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 kind | cop |
| 15 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saw | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 came | nsubj |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 kind | conj |
| 19 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | I | your racks of red fresh meat | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rack=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | gerund | your heart | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer heart=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | is | present | knowing | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | past | I | hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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