Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 138
After a long silence, he muttered: “Great Spirit, bless this little buffalo blood.”
Who acts: father, this · What happens: mutter, bless, blood · To what, where: Great 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, this), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 silence | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 silence | det |
| 3 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 silence | amod |
| 4 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 muttered | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 silence | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 muttered | nsubj |
| 7 | muttered | mutter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Spirit | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 Spirit | punct |
| 10 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Spirit | amod |
| 11 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 muttered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bless | punct |
| 13 | bless | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 7 muttered | conj |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 blood | nsubj |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 blood | amod |
| 16 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 blood | compound |
| 17 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bless | ccomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 muttered | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 muttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mutter speech: assert | past | father | Great Spirit | after a long silence | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Topic | |||
| 2 | bless in a quote | present | father not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | blood in a quote | this | tree rules |
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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