Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 83
A little distance away from their stolen house the father badger built a small round hut.
Who acts: little distance · What happens: steal, build · To what, where: small round hut
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 distance), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 distance | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 distance | amod |
| 3 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 built | nsubj |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 distance | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 7 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 house | amod |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 away | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 badger | det |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 badger | compound |
| 11 | badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 built | nsubj |
| 12 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hut | det |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hut | amod |
| 15 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hut | amod |
| 16 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 built | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | build | past | a little distance | a small round hut | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hut=Product |
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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