Old Indian Legends, The Badger and the Bear, sentence 176
Running into the dwelling he gasped, breathless and trembling, “Come out, all of you!
Who acts: body · What happens: run, gasp, tremble, come out · To what, where: dwelling · 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 (body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg338:652): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 gasped | advcl |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 dwelling | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dwelling | det |
| 4 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Running | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gasped | nsubj |
| 6 | gasped | gasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 breathless | punct |
| 8 | breathless | breathless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gasped | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 trembling | cc |
| 10 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 breathless | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Come | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 Come | punct |
| 13 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 gasped | ccomp |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 Come | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 all | punct |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 Come | vocative |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 you | case |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 all | nmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 13 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | gerund | body not said here | the dwelling | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into dwelling=Destination | ||||
| 2 | gasp | past | body | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tremble | gerund | body not said here | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | come out in a quote | infinitive | body not said here | all vocative | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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