Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 116

Then my brothers would laugh at me,” said the ugly baby bear to himself.

Who acts: brothers, ugly baby bear · What happens: laugh, say · 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 (brothers, ugly baby bear), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 laugh	advmod
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brothers	nmod:poss
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 laugh	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 laugh	aux
5	laugh	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 me	case
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 laugh	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 laugh	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 laugh	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 bear	det
12	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bear	amod
13	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bear	compound
14	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 himself	case
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 bear	nmod
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	would	my brothers				then	at me	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the ugly baby bear to father						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic

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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