Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 126

“Give--” he began, when the bear turning upon him with a growl, thrust him cruelly aside.

Who acts: father, bear · What happens: give, begin, turn · 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 (father, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
2	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 began	parataxis
3	--	--	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Give	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 began	nsubj
6	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 turning	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 turning	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bear	det
10	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turning	nsubj
11	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 began	parataxis
12	upon	upon	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 turning	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 growl	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 growl	det
16	growl	growl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 turning	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 thrust	punct
18	thrust	thrust	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 growl	conj
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 thrust	obj
20	cruelly	cruelly	ADV	_	21 aside	advmod
21	aside	aside	ADV	_	11 turning	advmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	give in a quote	infinitive			vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	begin	past	father		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	turn	gerund	the bear	upon father; with a growl and thrust; aside property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory

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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