Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 79

Standing in the entrance way and showing his ugly teeth, he snarled, “Be gone!”

Who acts: ough · What happens: stand, show, snarl, go · To what, where: entrance way, ugly teeth · 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 (ough), 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	Standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 snarled	advcl
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 way	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 way	det
4	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 way	compound
5	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Standing	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 showing	cc
7	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Standing	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 teeth	nmod:poss
9	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 teeth	amod
10	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 showing	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Standing	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 snarled	nsubj
13	snarled	snarl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gone	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 gone	punct
16	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 gone	aux:pass
17	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 snarled	parataxis
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 gone	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	13 snarled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	stand	gerund	ough not said here		the entrance way	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in way=Location
2	show	gerund	ough not said here	ough's ugly teeth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient
3	snarl	past	ough			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	go in a quote	infinitive · passive				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»

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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