Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 132

On his return to his family, he said within himself: “I'll pray the Great Spirit to bless it.”

Who acts: father · What happens: say, pray, bless, return · To what, where: return, Great Spirit, spirit · 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), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 return	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 return	nmod:poss
3	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 said	obl
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 family	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 family	nmod:poss
6	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 return	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 return	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	within	within	ADP	_	11 himself	case
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 said	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 pray	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 pray	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 pray	nsubj
15	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 pray	aux
16	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Spirit	det
18	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Spirit	amod
19	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 pray	obj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 bless	mark
21	bless	bless	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 pray	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 bless	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 pray	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 pray	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	father		father's return to father's family	within father	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pray in a quote	future	father	the Great Spirit			tree rules
3	bless in a quote	to-infinitive	father not said here	spirit			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	return		father			to father's family	nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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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