Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 156
He was delighted to be called “father” by the first human creature.
Who acts: avenger, first human creature · What happens: be, call · To what, where: father · 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 (avenger, first human creature), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 delighted | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 delighted | cop |
| 3 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 called | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 called | aux:pass |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 delighted | advcl |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 father | punct |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | xcomp |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 father | punct |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 creature | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 creature | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 creature | amod |
| 13 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 creature | amod |
| 14 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 called | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | avenger | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | to-infinitive · passive | the first human creature | father | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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