Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 169

Gazing full into the black bear's face, he said: “I come to do justice.

Who acts: avenger · What happens: gaze, say, come, do · To what, where: justice · 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), 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	Gazing	gaze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
2	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Gazing	xcomp
3	into	into	ADP	_	8 face	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bear	det
5	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bear	amod
6	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 face	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 bear	case
8	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 full	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Gazing	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 come	nsubj
15	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
16	to	to	PART	_	17 do	mark
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 come	xcomp
18	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gaze	gerund	avenger not said here		full property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	avenger			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come in a quote	present	avenger			tree rules
4	do in a quote	to-infinitive	avenger not said here	justice		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Eventuality

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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