Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 107

Poor little baby bear! he had always been laughed at by his older brothers.

Who acts: older brothers · What happens: laugh · To what, where: thin

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 (older brothers), 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	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bear	amod
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 bear	amod
3	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bear	compound
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 bear	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 laughed	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 laughed	aux
8	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 laughed	advmod
9	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 laughed	aux:pass
10	laughed	laugh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bear	acl:relcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	10 laughed	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	15 brothers	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 brothers	nmod:poss
14	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	15 brothers	amod
15	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 laughed	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past · perfect · passive	thin's older brothers	thin				always property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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