Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 122

It was tough meat, full of sinews, yet it was the only piece he could take without his father's notice.

Who acts: piece, father · What happens: be, take, notice · To what, where: tough meat, only piece

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 (piece, father), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 meat	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 meat	cop
3	tough	tough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 meat	amod
4	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 full	punct
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 meat	amod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 sinews	case
8	sinews	sinew	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 full	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 piece	punct
10	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	15 piece	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 piece	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 piece	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 piece	det
14	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 piece	amod
15	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meat	appos
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 take	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 take	aux
18	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 piece	acl:relcl
19	without	without	ADP	_	23 notice	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 notice	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 father	case
23	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 meat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	piece	tough meat		tree rules
2	is a	past	piece	the only piece		tree rules
3	take	could	father	the only piece not said here	without father's father's notice	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
4	notice		father's father			nom notice «communication transitive»: poss=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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