Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 66
I am strong!” repeated he, lifting both his terrible paws.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, repeat, lift · To what, where: foot, terrible paws · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 strong | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 strong | cop |
| 3 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 strong | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 strong | punct |
| 6 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 strong | parataxis |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 repeated | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lifting | punct |
| 9 | lifting | lift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 repeated | advcl |
| 10 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 11 his | cc:preconj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 paws | nmod:poss |
| 12 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 paws | amod |
| 13 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lifting | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | repeat in a quote | past | foot | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | lift in a quote | gerund | foot's terrible paws | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Theme |
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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