Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 85
This was shelter for the night; but alas! it was empty of food and arrows.
Who acts: shelter · What happens: be · To what, where: shelter
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 (shelter), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 shelter | det |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shelter | cop |
| 3 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 empty | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 night | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 night | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shelter | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 alas | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 alas | cc |
| 9 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shelter | conj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 shelter | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 empty | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 empty | cop |
| 13 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 food | case |
| 15 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 empty | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 arrows | cc |
| 17 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 food | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 empty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | this shelter but alas | night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | this shelter but alas | of food and arrows; empty property | 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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