Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 49
At last one time when the bear returned, his nose was bright and black.
Who acts: bear, nose · What happens: return, be
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, nose), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | compound |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bright | obl |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 returned | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bear | det |
| 7 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returned | nsubj |
| 8 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 nose | nmod:poss |
| 11 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bright | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 bright | cop |
| 13 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 black | cc |
| 15 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bright | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 bright | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the bear | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is | past | crackling's nose | time | bright property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | crackling's nose not said here | tree rules |
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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