Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 48
She did not wish a guest in her dwelling to sit upon the bare hard ground.
Who acts: bear · What happens: not wish, dwell, sit · To what, where: guest, bare hard ground
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 (bear), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wish | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wish | advmod |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 guest | det |
| 6 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wish | obj |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 dwelling | mark |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 9 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 wish | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 sit | mark |
| 11 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 dwelling | xcomp |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ground | det |
| 14 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ground | amod |
| 15 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ground | amod |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sit | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wish | past · do-support | bear | a guest | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot guest=Theme | ||||
| 2 | dwell | gerund | bear not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sit | to-infinitive | bear not said here | the bare hard ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon ground=Location |
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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