Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 135
“The buffalo blood, too, must be purified before I ask a blessing upon it,” thought the badger.
Who acts: badger · What happens: purify, ask, think · To what, where: buffalo blood, blessing · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 purified | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 blood | det |
| 3 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 blood | compound |
| 4 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 purified | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 blood | punct |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 blood | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 blood | punct |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 purified | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 purified | aux:pass |
| 10 | purified | purify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 thought | parataxis |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 13 ask | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 ask | nsubj |
| 13 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 purified | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 blessing | det |
| 15 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ask | obj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 ask | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ask | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 purified | punct |
| 20 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 badger | det |
| 22 | badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 thought | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purify in a quote | must · passive | the buffalo blood | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | the badger = badger | a blessing | upon blood | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent blessing=Recipient | |||
| 3 | think speech: other | past | the badger | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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