Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 71

Now, while her husband was talking to the bear, she motioned with her hands to the children.

Who acts: husband, friend · What happens: talk, motion

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 (husband, friend), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 motioned	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Now	punct
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	7 talking	mark
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 husband	nmod:poss
5	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talking	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 talking	aux
7	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 motioned	advcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 bear	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bear	det
10	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 talking	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 talking	punct
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 motioned	nsubj
13	motioned	motion	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 hands	case
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hands	nmod:poss
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 motioned	obl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 children	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 children	det
19	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 motioned	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 motioned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	talk	past · progressive	friend's husband					to the bear	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to bear=Co-Agent
2	motion	past	friend				now	with friend's hands; to the children	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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