Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 147
Immediately the badger told the sad story of his hungry little ones and the stingy bear.
Who acts: badger · What happens: tell · To what, where: sad story · 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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 4 told | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 badger | det |
| 3 | badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 6 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 story | amod |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 ones | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ones | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ones | amod |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ones | amod |
| 12 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 story | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bear | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bear | det |
| 15 | stingy | stingy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bear | amod |
| 16 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ones | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | the badger | the sad story of avenger's hungry little ones and the stingy bear | immediately property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
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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