Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 43
Day after day the crackling of twigs in the forest told of heavy footsteps.
Who acts: Day · What happens: tell · 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 (Day), 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 | Day | Day | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 told | nsubj |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 day | case |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Day | nmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crackling | det |
| 5 | crackling | crackling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 told | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 twigs | case |
| 7 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 crackling | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 twigs | nmod |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 footsteps | case |
| 13 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 footsteps | amod |
| 14 | footsteps | footstep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 told | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Day after day | of heavy footsteps | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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