Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 163
“How, badger, my friend!
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 How | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 badger | punct |
| 4 | badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 How | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friend | nmod:poss |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 badger | conj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 How | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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