Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 42
The baby badgers, peeping through the door-flap after the shaggy bear, saw him disappear into the woods near by.
Who acts: baby badgers, visitor · What happens: peep, see, disappear · To what, where: visitor, woods
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 (baby badgers, visitor), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 badgers | det |
| 2 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 badgers | compound |
| 3 | badgers | badger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 peeping | punct |
| 5 | peeping | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 badgers | acl |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 flap | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 flap | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flap | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 door | punct |
| 10 | flap | flap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 peeping | obl |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 bear | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bear | det |
| 13 | shaggy | shaggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bear | amod |
| 14 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flap | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 badgers | punct |
| 16 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 saw | obj |
| 18 | disappear | disappear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 saw | xcomp |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 woods | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 woods | det |
| 21 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 disappear | obl |
| 22 | near | near | ADV | _ | 18 disappear | advmod |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 near | fixed |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peep | gerund | the baby badgers not said here | through the door flap after the shaggy bear | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through flap=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the baby badgers | visitor | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | disappear | infinitive | visitor not said here | the woods | near property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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