Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 46

Always in the same place by the entrance way he sat down with crossed shins.

Who acts: crackling · What happens: sit down, cross

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 (crackling), 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	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	11 sat	advmod
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 place	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 place	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 place	amod
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Always	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 way	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
8	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 way	compound
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 sat	compound:prt
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 shins	case
14	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 shins	amod
15	shins	shin	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 sat	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	crackling					by the entrance way; with crossed shins; always property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by way=Location
2	cross	participle							vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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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