Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 55
The bear took one stride forward and shook his paw in the badger's face.
Who acts: bear · What happens: take, shake · To what, where: one stride, paw, face
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bear | det |
| 2 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 stride | nummod |
| 5 | stride | stride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 shook | cc |
| 8 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 paw | nmod:poss |
| 10 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shook | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 face | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 badger | det |
| 13 | badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 face | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 badger | case |
| 15 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shook | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the bear | one stride | forward property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stride=Theme | |||
| 2 | shake | past | the bear not said here | crackling's paw | the badger's face | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent paw=Theme in face=Trajectory |
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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