Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 89
Covering his head and entire body in a long loose robe he halted beside the big black bear.
Who acts: distance · What happens: cover, halt · To what, where: head, long loose robe, big black bear
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 (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 | Covering | cover | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Covering | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 body | cc |
| 5 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 body | amod |
| 6 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 head | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 robe | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 robe | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 robe | amod |
| 10 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 robe | amod |
| 11 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Covering | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 halted | nsubj |
| 13 | halted | halt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 robe | acl:relcl |
| 14 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 18 bear | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bear | det |
| 16 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bear | amod |
| 17 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 bear | amod |
| 18 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 halted | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Covering | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | gerund | distance's head and entire body | in a long loose robe | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Destination in robe=Theme | ||||
| 2 | halt | past | distance | a long loose robe not said here | the big black bear | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector robe=Eventuality |
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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