Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 175

“Ahow!” cried he, as if he had been shot.

Who acts: body · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: body, shot

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 (body), 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	_	5 cried	punct
2	Ahow	ahow	INTJ	_	5 cried	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ahow	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Ahow	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cried	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 shot	punct
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 shot	mark
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	13 shot	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 shot	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 shot	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 shot	cop
13	shot	shot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past		body					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
2	is a a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	body	shot					tree rules

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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