Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 38
“How, how!” replied the bear, drawing himself closer to the wall and crossing his shins together.
Who acts: bear · What happens: reply, draw, cross · To what, where: visitor, shins
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 (bear), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 replied | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 replied | advmod |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 how | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 how | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bear | det |
| 9 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 drawing | punct |
| 11 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 replied | advcl |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 drawing | obj |
| 13 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 drawing | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 wall | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wall | det |
| 16 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 closer | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 crossing | cc |
| 18 | crossing | cross | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 drawing | conj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 shins | nmod:poss |
| 20 | shins | shin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 crossing | obj |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 18 crossing | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the bear | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | draw | gerund | the bear not said here | visitor | close property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 3 | cross | gerund | the bear not said here | visitor's shins | together property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shin=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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