Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 90

The bear was slicing red meat to hang upon the rack.

Who acts: bear · What happens: slice, be, hang · To what, where: slicing red meat, rack

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 (bear), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meat	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 meat	cop
4	slicing	slice	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 meat	amod
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 meat	amod
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 hang	mark
8	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 meat	acl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	11 rack	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rack	det
11	rack	rack	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hang	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 meat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	slice	gerund				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	is a	past	the bear	slicing red meat		tree rules
3	hang	to-infinitive			the rack	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon rack=Location

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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