Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 144
In answer to the badger's prayer, the avenger had sprung from out the red globules.
Who acts: badger · What happens: spring out, pray · To what, where: avenger, answer
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 answer | case |
| 2 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sprung | obl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 prayer | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 badger | det |
| 5 | badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prayer | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 badger | case |
| 7 | prayer | prayer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 answer | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 answer | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 avenger | det |
| 10 | avenger | avenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sprung | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 sprung | aux |
| 12 | sprung | spring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 out | case |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 sprung | compound:prt |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 globules | det |
| 16 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 globules | amod |
| 17 | globules | globule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sprung | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 sprung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring out | past · perfect · passive | the avenger | answer to the badger's prayer | the red globules obl:unmarked | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | pray | the badger | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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