Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 52
As he entered the dwelling a pair of wicked gleams shot out of his shaggy head.
Who acts: crackling, dwelling pair · What happens: enter, dwell, shoot · To what, where: shaggy head
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, dwelling pair), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 entered | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pair | det |
| 5 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 pair | amod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pair | det |
| 7 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shot | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gleams | case |
| 9 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gleams | amod |
| 10 | gleams | gleam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 pair | nmod |
| 11 | shot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | ccomp |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 head | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 15 | shaggy | shaggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 head | amod |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shot | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | crackling | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dwell | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | shoot | past | the dwelling pair of wicked gleams | crackling's shaggy head | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent out head=Destination |
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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