Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 59
The bear smiled, showing a row of large sharp teeth.
Who acts: bear · What happens: smile, show · To what, where: row
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 smiled | nsubj |
| 3 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 showing | punct |
| 5 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 smiled | advcl |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 row | det |
| 7 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 showing | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 teeth | case |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 teeth | amod |
| 10 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 teeth | amod |
| 11 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 row | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | past | the bear | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | show | gerund | the bear not said here | a row of large sharp teeth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent row=Recipient |
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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