Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 91
He did not pause for a look at the comer.
Who acts: distance · What happens: not pause · To what, where: comer
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pause | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pause | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 pause | advmod |
| 4 | pause | pause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 look | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 look | det |
| 7 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pause | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 comer | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 comer | det |
| 10 | comer | comer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pause | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pause | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pause | past · do-support | distance | the comer | for a look | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at comer=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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