Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 47
His daily visits were so regular that mother badger placed a fur rug in his place.
Who acts: daily visits, mother badger, crackling · What happens: be, place, visit · To what, where: fur rug, place
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 (daily visits, mother badger, 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 visits | nmod:poss |
| 2 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 visits | amod |
| 3 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 regular | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 regular | cop |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 regular | advmod |
| 6 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 placed | mark |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 badger | compound |
| 9 | badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 placed | nsubj |
| 10 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 regular | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 rug | det |
| 12 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rug | compound |
| 13 | rug | rug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 placed | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 place | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 place | nmod:poss |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 placed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 regular | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | crackling's daily visits | regular property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | place | past | mother badger | a fur rug | crackling's place | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rug=Theme in place=Destination | |||
| 3 | visit | crackling | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=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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