Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 123

Thus having given meat to the hungry badgers, the ugly baby bear ran quickly away to his father again.

Who acts: ugly baby bear · What happens: have, give, run · To what, where: given meat

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 (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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	2 having	advmod
2	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 ran	advcl
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 meat	amod
4	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 having	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	8 badgers	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 badgers	det
7	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 badgers	amod
8	badgers	badger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 having	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 having	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bear	det
11	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bear	amod
12	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bear	compound
13	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ran	nsubj
14	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	16 away	advmod
16	away	away	ADV	_	14 ran	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 father	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 father	nmod:poss
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 away	obl
20	again	again	ADV	_	14 ran	advmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	the ugly baby bear not said here	given meat		to the hungry badgers; thus property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
2	give	participle					vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
3	run	past	the ugly baby bear		again	away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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