Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 77
The little badgers he tossed by pairs.
Who acts: little badgers · What happens: toss
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 (little badgers), 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 | 3 badgers | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 badgers | amod |
| 3 | badgers | badger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tossed | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tossed | nsubj |
| 5 | tossed | toss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 pairs | case |
| 7 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tossed | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toss | past | the little badgers | by pairs | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent by pair=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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