Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 8

While the well-fed children played about, digging little make-believe dwellings, their mother hung thin sliced meats upon long willow racks.

Who acts: mother · What happens: feed, play about, dig, believe, hang, slice · To what, where: fed children, little make, dwellings, thin sliced meats, long willow racks

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 (mother), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	7 played	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 children	det
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 fed	advmod
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 well	punct
5	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 children	amod
6	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 played	nsubj:pass
7	played	play	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 hung	advcl
8	about	about	ADV	_	7 played	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 digging	punct
10	digging	dig	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 played	advcl
11	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 make	amod
12	make	make	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 digging	obj
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 believe	punct
14	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 make	parataxis
15	dwellings	dwelling	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 believe	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 played	punct
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mother	nmod:poss
18	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hung	nsubj
19	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 meats	amod
21	sliced	slice	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 meats	amod
22	meats	meat	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hung	obj
23	upon	upon	ADP	_	26 racks	case
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 racks	amod
25	willow	willow	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 racks	compound
26	racks	rack	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hung	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 hung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feed	participle				well property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
2	play about	participle · passive		the fed children		about property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	dig	gerund		little make			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent make=Theme
4	believe	infinitive		dwellings			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dwelling=Stimulus
5	hang	past	children's mother	thin sliced meats	long willow racks		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent meat=Theme upon rack=Destination
6	slice	participle					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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