Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 92
As the badger stood there unrecognized, he saw that the bear had brought with him his whole family.
Who acts: distance · What happens: stand, unrecogniz, see, bring · To what, where: bear · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 badger | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 badger | det |
| 3 | badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obl |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stood | advmod |
| 6 | unrecognized | unrecogniz | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stood | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 brought | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bear | det |
| 12 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 brought | aux |
| 14 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 saw | ccomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 brought | obl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 family | nmod:poss |
| 18 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 family | amod |
| 19 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 brought | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | there | as the badger | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | unrecogniz | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | see | past | distance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the bear | with distance | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination family=Theme |
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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