Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 152
I am going again to beg for meat,” answered the badger.
Who acts: I, badger · What happens: go, beg, answer · 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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 going | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | aux |
| 3 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 going | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 beg | mark |
| 6 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 going | xcomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 meat | case |
| 8 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beg | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 going | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 badger | det |
| 13 | badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | I | again | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | to-infinitive | I not said here | for meat | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for meat=Topic | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | the badger | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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