Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 94

They laughed and pointed with their wee noses upward at the thin sliced meats upon the poles.

Who acts: cubs, thin · What happens: laugh, point, slice · To what, where: meats, poles

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 (cubs, thin), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 laughed	nsubj
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 pointed	cc
4	pointed	point	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	conj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 noses	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 noses	nmod:poss
7	wee	wee	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 noses	compound
8	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pointed	obl
9	upward	upward	ADV	_	2 laughed	advmod
10	at	at	SCONJ	_	13 sliced	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thin	det
12	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 sliced	nsubj
13	sliced	slice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 laughed	advcl
14	meats	meat	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sliced	obj
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	17 poles	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 poles	det
17	poles	pole	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sliced	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	cubs = cub			upward property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	point	past	cubs = cub not said here			with cubs's wee noses	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	slice	past	the thin	meats	the poles		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent meat=Patient upon pole=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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