Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 93
Little cubs played under the high-hanging new meats.
Who acts: Little cubs · What happens: play, hang · To what, where: hanging new meats
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 (Little cubs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg338:574): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 cubs | amod |
| 2 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 played | nsubj |
| 3 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 meats | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 meats | det |
| 6 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 hanging | advmod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 high | punct |
| 8 | hanging | hang | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 meats | amod |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 meats | amod |
| 10 | meats | meat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 played | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | Little cubs | the hanging new meats | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hang | gerund | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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