Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 41

At nightfall he rose, and smacking his lips together,--that is the noisy way of saying “the food was very good!”--he left the badger dwelling.

Who acts: visitor, that, noisy way, food, badger · What happens: rise, smack, be, say, leave, dwell · To what, where: nightfall, lips, noisy way, badger · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (visitor, that, noisy way, food), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 nightfall	case
2	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rose	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rose	nsubj
4	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 smacking	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 smacking	cc
7	smacking	smack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 rose	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lips	nmod:poss
9	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 smacking	obj
10	together	together	ADV	_	7 smacking	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 way	punct
12	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 way	punct
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 way	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 way	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
16	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 way	amod
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smacking	obl
18	of	of	SCONJ	_	19 saying	mark
19	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 way	acl
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 good	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 food	det
22	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 good	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 good	cop
24	very	very	ADV	_	25 good	advmod
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 saying	ccomp
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 good	punct
27	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 good	punct
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	30 left	punct
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 left	nsubj
30	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rose	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 badger	det
32	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 left	obj
33	dwelling	dwell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 left	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 rose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rise	past	visitor		nightfall		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at nightfall=Location
2	smack	gerund	visitor not said here	visitor's lips		together property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient
3	is a	present	that	the noisy way			tree rules
4	say speech: express	gerund	the noisy way not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	past	the food			good property	tree rules
6	leave	past	visitor	the badger			tree rules
7	dwell	gerund	the badger not said here				vn exist-47.1 «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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