Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 13

One day father badger did not go off for a hunt.

Who acts: day father badger · What happens: not go off

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 (day father badger), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 badger	compound
3	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 badger	compound
4	badger	badger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 go	advmod
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 go	compound:prt
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 hunt	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 hunt	det
11	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go off	past · do-support	day father badger					for a hunt	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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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